From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 8 17:56:38 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16E9816A4BF for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2003 17:56:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccimhc02.asp.att.net (sccimhc02.asp.att.net [63.240.76.164]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22ED343FAF for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2003 17:56:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david.fleck@mchsi.com) Received: from grond.sourballs.org (12-216-14-105.client.mchsi.com[12.216.14.105]) by sccimhc02.asp.att.net (sccimhc02) with ESMTP id <20030909005634im2006i4mne>; Tue, 9 Sep 2003 00:56:34 +0000 Received: from grond.sourballs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grond.sourballs.org (8.12.3p2/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h890uE1L003495 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2003 17:56:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david.fleck@mchsi.com) Received: from localhost (dcf@localhost)ESMTP id h890uDuJ003492 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2003 19:56:14 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from david.fleck@mchsi.com) X-Authentication-Warning: grond.sourballs.org: dcf owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 19:56:13 -0500 (CDT) From: David Fleck Sender: dcf@mchsi.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20030908195048.P3404@grond.sourballs.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: XFree86 Configuration X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 00:56:38 -0000 On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Gavin Hubbard wrote: > In section 5.4.2 it says to run "XFree86 -configure" as root to build the > initial configuration. Unfortunately this command has completely locked up > the system's primary console and I am unable to switch to a virtual terminal > to kill the offending process. > > First of all, what has gone wrong? (my framebuffer is supported by > XFree86-4). Second, how do I break out of the crashed console? Is there a > magic key combination I can use? The system seems to be alive (it responds > to pings) but I have not enabled telnet/ssh or any other remote admin tools. Umm, I can't offer much help, but I found that my system behaved in the exact same manner when I installed XFree86 4.3. It works fine, however, with XFree86 4.2.0 and 4.2.1. It seems to be a problem with the video card driver recognizing the chipset correctly. Since I could get it to work with 4.2.x, I didn't bother investigating further. What's your video card? Mine is an ATI Radeon 7500. I've looked at www.xfree86.org, but haven't seen any indication that this has been reported as a problem. As far as recovering control of the system, I think you may have to power-cycle it. -- David Fleck dcf@aracnet.com