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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!spool.mu.edu!news.nd.edu!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!purdue!sample.eng.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.cso.uiuc.edu!uxh.cso.uiuc.edu!venkat From: venkat@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Venkat Swaminathan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: XFree86 gives me a blank screen ! Keywords: X Xfree86 install Message-ID: <BvEp22.24@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 30 Sep 92 19:34:49 GMT Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 20 Hi folks, I downloaded the XFree86 binaries from agate:/pub/incoming/X386 and have been [unsuccessfully] trying to install XFree86. After I type 'sh startx' or 'xinit' there is a 3-4 second pause and then the message "Waiting for X server to begin accepting connections" followed by a number of periods - two to a line. After a minute or two the screen just blanks and nothing short of a reboot will get the screen back. The keyboard is apparently working because of the disk activity pattern when I type a command etc. I have spent hours on trying out different values in the Xconfig file to no avail. I am using the kernel binary from agate:/pub/incoming/X386/386bsd.kernel... whatever. DETAILS: 386/25 MHz machine with 4MB RAM/125MB HD; Diamond Speedstar VGA video card with 1MB video RAM; MAG PMV 1448 monitor; Microsoft compatible mouse on com1. Any help will be appreciated either by email or USENET. Thanks ! Venkat