RE: X11 is killing me! (the revenge)

[Jonathan Belson <jon%dookie.demon.co.uk@localhost>]

On 04-Sep-98 Alfio Lo Castro wrote:
> Regarding my trouble with X11, (I'll remenber you I have an A4000,
> cyberstorm 060, CV 64 3D, NetBSD 1.3.2, kernel standard)
> Well, I have news
> After a lot of tries I have configured my X11 init files to start openwin

Openwin?

> with a bad parameter (non existent); I did it for viewing if openwin starts
> or not.
> Naturally, after typing "startx", openwin gives me the list of correct
> parameters but... while it is printing on screen it freezes, lefting the
> message incomplete!

I always start X with something like `startx >& error.log` so if something
goes wrong I can check the log for error messages.

> I think my X11R6 server freezes... why?

Are you sure it actually freezes?  Is it possible it's displaying in a
screen mode that you monitor can't display?  (When I first tried NetBSD,
I incorrectly configured it to use AGA mode - it appeared to lock up since
I was using a Picasso without a passthrough).

Try killing X with the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace combination, that should tell you
if your machine is still responding or not. (Remember not to use the `no-zap`
option).


C-YA
Jon

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