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