From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 31 5:20:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from stargate.spray.se (stargate.spray.se [212.78.194.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0997E37B4CF for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 05:20:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from 172.16.10.6 by stargate.spray.se (InterScan E-Mail VirusWall NT); Tue, 31 Oct 2000 14:19:51 +0100 (W. Europe Standard Time) Received: by titan.i.spray.se with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 14:19:19 +0100 Received: from ng4L114.i.spray.se ([172.16.24.114]) by guld.i.spray.se with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id V0DXFT1Z; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 14:18:32 +0100 From: Johan Pettersson To: Charlie Root Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, liberty6@twcny.rr.com Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 14:18:34 +0100 (CET) X-Sender: jopet@ng4L117.i.spray.se 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: > Dear freebsd.org, > 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??" > Sometimes when I run startx, I get X to work. The other times, my > system crashes to a point where I need to do a physical powerdown > of my machine, cause even ctrl-alt-del wont work. > I have a pentium 2 300MHz class machine, with an SiS 5598 > video board. Nobody in the chat rooms knows anything about what I'm > talking about. And I am PISSED!!! OpenBSD was working great (even via an > ftp install!) But no, FreeBSD wants to be the luser in my box!! > What should I do to fix this problem??? > Please email me with the fix! You have maybe configured XFree86 wrong!! If you were happy with OpenBSD why switch ? Johan -- Spray Network Services Stockholm | Sweden Cell: +46(0)708 402 836 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message