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#! rnews 2565 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!mel.dit.csiro.au!actcsiro!news.nsw.CSIRO.AU!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!inXS.uu.net!nwlink.com!usenet From: Florida Boy <ltaylor@nwlink.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: HELP AGAIN! Startx causes reboot! Date: Tue, 02 Jul 1996 20:14:19 -0700 Organization: Northwest Link Lines: 49 Message-ID: <31D9E58B.41C67EA6@nwlink.com> References: <4r8j6u$pdk@zgs.com> <31D87B2E.3B2EAE20@rice.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: florida.nwlink.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b5 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) John Paul Campbell wrote: > > I posted earlier how when I typed startx, my system rebooted. It was > requested that I post the stderr of startx so here it is. Note the > section where it can't find the RGB_DB dbase. I hope this helps. > > Here it is: > > XFree86 Version 3.1.2 / X Window System > (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6000) > Operating System: FreeBSD 2.0.5 > Configured drivers: > SVGA: server for 8-bit colour SVGA (Patchlevel 0): > et4000, et4000w32, et4000w32i, et4000w32p, et3000, pvga1, wd90c00, > wd90c10, wd90c30, wd90c24, wd90c31, wd90c33, gvga, vgawonder, > tvga8800cs, tvga8900b, tvga8900c, tvga8900cl, tvga9000, clgd5420, > clgd5422, clgd5424, clgd5426, clgd5428, clgd5429, clgd5430, > clgd5434, > clgd5436, clgd6205, clgd6215, clgd6225, clgd6235, ncr77c22, > ncr77c22e, > cpq_avga, oti067, oti077, oti087, mx, al2101, ali2228, ali2301, > ali2302, ali2308, ali2401, cl6410, cl6412, cl6420, cl6440, video7, > ct65520, ct65530, ct65540, ct65545, ark1000vl, ark1000pv, > ark2000pv, > realtek, generic > Using syscons driver with X support (version 2.0) > (using VT number 4) > > XF86Config: /etc/XF86Config > (**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values > (**) Mouse: type: PS/2, device: /dev/mouse, baudrate: 1200, > 3 button emulation (timeout: 50ms) [Errors deleted] > > thanks, > > desparate jpc Is your kernel compiled to handle PS/2 mice? If not, go to where ms0 is setup, comment out that line, and on the next line put: device psm0 at isa? port "IO_KBD" conflicts tty irq 12 vector psmintr All on one line, of course. =) I had the exact same problem 'til I recompiled to use the right mouse.