Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:47:11 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> To: Frank Griffith <glassdude45@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading X Issue Message-ID: <20070810114711.GJ1166@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <480873.46143.qm@web51302.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: <20070809185928.GV1244@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <480873.46143.qm@web51302.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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--17pEHd4RhPHOinZp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2007-Aug-09 12:32:44 -0700, Frank Griffith <glassdude45@yahoo.com> wrote: >Sorry to be such a pain...I guess my lack of knowledge on the subject >leaves me knowing just enough to be dangerous. I think I might agree with you there. I think you need to do some background reading on X but I'm not sure of the best place to find some. There is some information in the FreeBSD Handbook (the rest of the chapter you were given previously) but I think you will need to look further afield as well. >When I build a new server and run Xorg -configure and then run >startx, I get three white windows with green frames. Each of the white windows is an xterm and the reference to green frames makes me think you are running twm. >-configure and then ran startx. I then got a complete white screenon >the monitor and could see the mouse moving around but no little >white/green windows and I couldn't type anything to launch an >application. I presume that "complete white screen" means it didn't have the standard black-and-white X11 stipple. A friend got that as well and it turned out that his video chipset had somehow gotten itself into a funny state and the system needed rebooting. Does a reboot help? >I must admit that once upon a time about 2 years ago, I did a pkg_add >-r kde and the damn thing ran for almost 72 hours compiling stuff kde is _big_. Even on a fast system it seems to take several days. If rebooting doesn't help, could you please make your xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log available somewhere for our perusal. --=20 Peter Jeremy --17pEHd4RhPHOinZp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGvFA//opHv/APuIcRAjDRAJ9+jyjSzCB4V4KwmDgusglszae5lwCgle80 6fcagdo5GtFROjeXGmlYr7Y= =DLuv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --17pEHd4RhPHOinZp--
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