From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 2 08:53:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA09328 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 08:53:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from vital.bleeding.com (flea.bleeding.com [205.166.195.252]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA09323 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 08:53:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from crimson (crimson.bleeding.com [205.166.254.2]) by vital.bleeding.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA00311 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 08:50:39 -0800 (PST) Received: by crimson with Microsoft Mail id <01BC3F43.7B78BC00@crimson>; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 08:54:32 -0800 Message-ID: <01BC3F43.7B78BC00@crimson> From: Justin Wolf To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: X-Server hard crashes when started Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 08:54:31 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by freefall.freebsd.org id IAA09324 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Every time I try to start X-Windows, it hard crashes the system. Meaning, all telnet activity is halted, the console screen goes blank (losses signal), console interactivity is halted. I have to push the reset button in order to get anything back. I have properly (as far as I can tell), set up the configuration files via both the shell config program and the X-like interface (making me think that this is not a problem with the video, mouse, keybd, etc). The system is a 486-50 w/ 32MB RAM and plenty of free drive space (over 200MB on the drive with X on it and over a gig elsewhere) with a Diamond Viper VESA SVGA card (which I'm using as a Generic VGA card until I can at least get the thing to start). I'm running 2.2-RELEASE and the latest version of X11 from the ftp site. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you. -Justin Wolf (jjwolf@bleeding.com) (Also, please tell me where to direct X questions in the future...)