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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA2080 ; Thu, 25 Feb 93 10:10:56 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!Germany.EU.net!uni-muenster.de!cygnus!niehues From: niehues@cygnus.uni-muenster.de (Michael Niehues) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: XFree-1.1 Date: 24 Feb 1993 08:48:45 GMT Organization: AIM Lines: 22 Sender: niehues@cygnus (Michael Niehues) Distribution: world Message-ID: <1mfcpdINN10vl@obelix.uni-muenster.de> References: <C2xyMo.J58@cs.mcgill.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: cygnus.uni-muenster.de In article <C2xyMo.J58@cs.mcgill.ca>, feinmann@cs.mcgill.ca (Richard JHANG) writes: |> I have just installed XFree-1.1. Whatever configuration I try, it always |> outputs the following: |> |> XFree86 Version 1.1 / X Window System |> (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000) |> Configured drivers: |> VGA256 (256 colour SVGA): |> et4000, et3000, pvga1, gvga, ati, tvga8900 |> XIO: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) on X server ":0.0" |> after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining |> The connection was probably broken by a server shutdown or KillClient |> You have to redirect stdin and stderr into a file to get a more comprehensive error message: sh xinit > error.file 2>&1 cat error.file Michael