Subject: Problems with X on new current kernels
To: Kent S. Gordon <kgor@ksg.com>
From: Matthieu Herrb <matthieu@laas.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/21/1996 17:00:49
You wrote (in your message from Wed 20)
> I have had a problem with getting XFree 3.1.2 working with new
> -current kernels. When I invoke xinit from a shell by exec xinit. It
> looks like X is starting, the screen changes to blank , then it dies
> an a login prompt returns. Any ideas? The last kernel that I
> compiled that worked was on March 3, so it probably was a from a
> -current of a couple of days earlier than that. My system is a
> i486/66 VL-BUS
> 16 Megs RAM
> BusLogic 445 SCSI Controller
> NE2000 clone
> Mach 32 VL video card
> a couple of SCSI disks, tape drive, cd-rom.
>
Can you send us the result of ``xinit >& result'' ? (Or look at it in
case there is some obvious problem).
Matthieu