Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 11:26:29 +0100 From: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de> To: seanw@gosmalltalk.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd 4.2 freezes on my box Message-ID: <3A94E955.87A261FA@i-clue.de> References: <000201c09ca5$e990ed20$049e92d0@xtdl.com>
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Sean Glazier schrieb: > > I have a PII 266 with 256 ram that I have installed freebsd on. > > I installed Xfree86 and am running kde. if I run kvt the box freezes > entirely. you can't so much as telnet to the box. it is completely hung. > there is nothing in the messages file either about a panic or problem. > > anyone have any idea about what causes this. I can also be running other > applications and it will hang such as vi or the compiler or anything. I > think it is a kernel problem but it could be related to the X server as > well. > > Since I saw no report of it I submitted a problem report. > uname -a reveals > > FreeBSD passion.xtdl.com 4.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE #0: Mon Nov 20 > 13:02:55 > GMT 2000 jkh@bento.FreeBSD.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 > > so I have the default generic kernel. Is there something I have to play with > to get it working. Since it is xvt which makes problems, I suggest, 1) xterm as workaround 2) cvsup to 4.2-Stable 3) compile KDE 1.1 from the ports. IMHO KDE 2 is still unstable. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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