From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Aug 15 04:29:39 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id EAA17744 for bugs-outgoing; Tue, 15 Aug 1995 04:29:39 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id EAA17738 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 1995 04:29:35 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA09706; Tue, 15 Aug 1995 13:28:28 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id NAA11698; Tue, 15 Aug 1995 13:28:28 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id HAA02967; Tue, 15 Aug 1995 07:40:22 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199508150540.HAA02967@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Help! Can't run X on 2.1.0-072695-SNAP! To: frank@kaiwan.com (Frank Mayhar) Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 07:40:22 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199508142059.UAA00444@localhost> from "Frank Mayhar" at Aug 14, 95 08:59:53 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1325 Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Frank Mayhar wrote: > > I've installed the version of XFree86 3.1.1 that I found with FreeBSD 2.0.5 > on ftp.freebsd.org. I can start X fine, but after a short time (no more than > a couple of minutes), the server starts exhibiting flaky behavior, I see > flashes and garbage (it doesn't stick around, it just flashes and goes away), > then, shortly thereafter, the server becomes unresponsive. It appears to be > spinning, using CPU but otherwise completely wedged. > > I've enclosed my config file below. Any help with this would be _very_ > much appreciated. Thanks in advance. Sorry, this config file is not of much use. I suspect you are trying to overdrive your graphics board. Try looking up the specs, and compare to the settings in your XF86Config file. From your description, the problem looks like you are overheating some chip of the graphics card. Should your problem persist, the support address for XFree86/tm might be more helpful in this case, since FreeBSD provides this package as an `add-on' without maintaining it. (Actually, some people are members of both groups, but the knowledge of the XFree86 folks is better for your problem, of course.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)