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Date:      Tue, 6 Jun 2000 14:40:53 -0400
From:      David Banning <sky_tracker@yahoo.com>
To:        Mathew Kanner <mat@cs.mcgill.ca>, David Banning <David@Banning.com>
Cc:        Mathew Kanner <mat@cs.mcgill.ca>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Fwd: Re: after firing up X - text screen dies
Message-ID:  <00060614451600.00871@tracker>
In-Reply-To: <20000606143529.D28905@cs.mcgill.ca>
References:  <20000606072300.15417.qmail@web3204.mail.yahoo.com> <393CA919.6ADB4E1F@Banning.com> <20000606143529.D28905@cs.mcgill.ca>

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On Tue, 06 Jun 2000, Mathew Kanner wrote:
> On Jun 06, David Banning wrote:
> > Thanks for your reply, Mathew.
> > > On Jun 05, David Banning wrote:
> > > > I had this before - I uninstalled XFree86 and re-installed and it was
> > > > fixed.
> > > > This time that won't work.
> > > >
> > > > I'm using version 3.4 FreeBSD with XFree 3.3.6 and KDE.
> > > 
> > >         Really?  This is FreeBSD?
> > Yup, it is.
> > > 
> > >         I'd like you to send along a 'uname -a' and the contents of
> > > your /etc/ttys,
> > uname -a gives us;
> > 
> > FreeBSD tracker 3.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE #10: Mon May 15 10:47:01
> > GMT 2000     skytracker@tracker:/usr/src/sys/compile/tracker  i386
> > 
> > and /etc/ttys follows;
> > #
> > #       $Id: ttys,v 1.16.2.2 1998/09/03 22:14:37 brian Exp $
> > #       @(#)ttys        5.1 (Berkeley) 4/17/89
> > #
> > # name  getty                           type    status          comments
> 
> 	Oh, I get it now.  You must have done an upgrade from a 2.2
> machine.  I'm not sure what to tell you about this, I haven't been in
> the same situation.  
> 	Maybe, to eliminate the obvious, you should grab a ttys from
> the 3.4 release.  I imagine that you have binaries leftover from the
> 2.2 days, possibly even X?  Other than that, someone else may have
> some thoughts.
Actually - I solved the problem by running X with 8 bit color.  I am pretty
sure it must be a system resources thing.  32 bit color was eating tons of
memory - the only thing is - I don't understand why it's been fine in the past.
Disk space is OK.


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