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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!zaphod.crihan.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!frmug!renux.frmug.fr.net!keltia.frmug.fr.net!not-for-mail From: roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net (Ollivier Robert) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] Boot Problems & XFree Problems Date: 25 Nov 1993 14:47:02 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD Usenet Site Lines: 21 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2d2d14$lt@keltia.frmug.fr.net> References: <2c7rgb$ekq@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> <2cgpg5$acg@suntan.eng.usf.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: keltia.frmug.fr.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <2cgpg5$acg@suntan.eng.usf.edu>, Allen Gambert <gambert@zeus.csee.usf.edu> wrote: >FreeBSD worked great for me, I just seem to have a problem getting XFree86-2.0 >to work. At one time I had 386bsd on this machine, and XFree86 worked fine. >I've tried everything but could not get XFree86 to work, I even used the same >Xconfig file, but that didn't work either. When i try to run XFree86 the screen >goes blank, than comes back, but X is not running, and all I can do is reboot >the system. Is there anyway to get some sort of debugging output so I can see >where its getting stuck? Any help will be appreciated. Try that : put syscons into your kernel with a minimum of two or three virtual consoles and always start X from the second one (ttyv1) not the first. The problem seems that both FreeBSD and the X server are trying to take away the console (ttyv0) and sometimes X lose :-) I didn't have a single booting problem with X since then. -- Ollivier ROBERT Ollivier.Robert@keltia.frmug.fr.net A FreeBSD & PERL addict... PGP 2.3a Public Key on request