From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 31 5: 7:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (mta02-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFF9037B4C5 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 05:07:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from m78-mp1-cvx1c.gui.ntl.com ([62.252.12.78]) by mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20001031130750.JWXM270.mta02-svc.ntlworld.com@m78-mp1-cvx1c.gui.ntl.com>; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 13:07:50 +0000 Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 13:10:12 +0000 (GMT) From: George Reid X-Sender: geeorgy@sobek.nevernet.net To: Charlie Root Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, liberty6@twcny.rr.com Subject: Re: pissed!!! In-Reply-To: <200010311342.IAA00323@takiweb.yi.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Charlie Root wrote: > I am PISSED!!! I used to be a winblows user, converted to Linux, and > ran OpenBSD for a few months. But since I've installed the $49.99 > CompUSA boxed version of FreeBSD 4.0, when I run startx my system > crashes! Is this what you consider to be "rock-solid stability??" Have you read the FreeBSD handbook chapter on XFree86? Have you read the XFree86 documentation itself? X-Window has a tendency to crash when you configure it wrong. You might want to look at that first, before you have your next tantrum on a public mailing list because your new toy won't work. G --- "And then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel was just a freight train, comin' your way." George Reid * greid@ukug.uk.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message