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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!dtix!darwin.sura.net!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) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: XFree86 gives me a blank screen ! [SOLVED] Keywords: X Xfree86 install Message-ID: <BvnJMB.K5z@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 5 Oct 92 14:15:46 GMT References: <BvEp22.24@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 38 venkat@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Venkat Swaminathan) writes: >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 ! I ran xdm and upon checking the xdm-errors file saw error messages of the out-of-memory type. Apparently I had not bothered to check that the resolutions that I was setting in the Xconfig file would fit in the available memory ! NOTE: Of the different resolutions that I had entered in the Xconfig file, only *one* required more memory than that availlable and yet *none* of the resolutions would work - would it be possible [in the next version, maybe] that XFree86 display atleast the possible resolutions rather than come crashing down for one teeny weeny fault :-) Thanks for all the responses anyway. Venkat >Venkat