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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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