Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 23:46:56 -0500 From: Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net> To: "Dustin" <dustin@marsik.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X issue Message-ID: <20040824234656.1f455291@vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net> In-Reply-To: <5878D00B313A8D4E8D00B7E3082FC693067A04@FF01.marsik.org> References: <5878D00B313A8D4E8D00B7E3082FC693067A04@FF01.marsik.org>
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On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 23:00:47 -0500 "Dustin" <dustin@marsik.org> wrote: > I'm having some issues, I believe with XFree86. I just installed > FreeBSD 5.2.1 Rel, installed XFree86 v 4.3.0, then ran CVsup to > update my ports tree, then installed Fluxbox from ports. I managed > to configure it well enough to get into Fluxbox, but when I exited > out from X, the system would hang. I ended up having to hard-shut > it down after it hung. Now I cannot get back into X. When I run > 'startx', the system hangs. What kind of things can I try now? I have had this happen once or twice... when you power back up you may find your config file X wasted(happened to me once)... you may also want to recompile the Xserver possibly too. BTW what video card and options set for it? I noticed the older nvidia drivers seemed more proned to going flaky than the newer ones have been so far.
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