Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 10:05:21 +0100 (BST) From: Nik Clayton <Nik.Clayton@brunel.ac.uk> To: steinber@SLINKY.CS.NYU.EDU (Joseph Steinberg) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X Problem Message-ID: <10905.9507130905@molnir.brunel.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950712214100.6823D-100000@slinky.cs.nyu.edu> from "Joseph Steinberg" at Jul 12, 95 09:43:28 pm
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> all I get is a grey (i.e., black and white display) screen that goes way
> off my monitor, with a mouse prompt 'X', and a frozen system (well, sort
> of frozen, -- the mouse moves the mouse pointer, but that is all I can
> do. I have to hit the 'RESET' key and reboot -- and pray the the
> filesystem is in order -- to do anything).
This sounds like two problems.
The first is your monitor positioning. That's easy to fix. Go into
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11 and edit XF86Config (make sure you don't have a copy
of this file in /etc, the X system will look for it in there first, and
ignore any changes you make to the copy in /usr/X11...).
Your looking for the "Modeline" entry for whichever resolution your
using. You need to tweak a couple of parameters to shift the picture
back into place. The process is documented in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/VideoModes.doc, so I won't duplicate it here.
The second sounds like bits of your window system (the window manager
specifically) aren't starting up properly. Try doing
startx >& /tmp/startx.error
which will redirect any error messages to the file /tmp/startx.error,
which you can then inspect and try and spot some likely candidates for
problems.
Rather than turning your machine off if X hangs, try doing
<CTRL><ALT><BACKSPACE>, which should kill the X server and return you to
the prompt.
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