Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 10:18:12 -0000 From: "James Green" <james@stealthnet.co.uk> To: "Rod Person" <roddierod@yahoo.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Savage 4 in XFree86 4.x.x Message-ID: <IGEPIJPNHPMGCANGLCBHKEONCBAA.james@stealthnet.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20020215213410.425adaeb.roddierod@yahoo.com>
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> On Fri, 15 Feb 2002 10:20:35 -0000 > "James Green" <james@stealthnet.co.uk> wrote: > > > I have a Savage 4 S3 video card 86c395/396/397, and cannot for the > > > life of me get this thing set up in the new XFree86 4.x.x > > > > Snap. We have a local dev box running 4.5 with an on-board Savage4 gfx > > chipset. XFree86-4 in ports does it's -configure thing fine, then we > > install Xwrapper from ports and update the symlink, but then we run > > startx as a normal user and bang, the whole machine hangs. Can't ssh in > > or anything. > > > > http://64.94.46.26/XF86Config is the config file we've got. > > Does it work as root? I assume it does. I never had success get Xfree86-4 > to work with a user account via startx. I'm using xdm to boot directly > into X, that has worked. > > from what I read in your config file, everything seems ok. The whole machine hangs when startx is run by root. I can't even ssh in remotely. Have to reboot using the button on the case. jg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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