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X in DragonFly


From: "M. Schatzl" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 02:27:33 +0100

Hi dudes,

I think I meanwhile tested X quite exhaustivly on DragonFly. To put aside any doubts, I consider myself as an average user. I built both X.org 6.7 (XFree 4.4) and XFree 4.3 from ports and installed both as well as packages afterwards. Never tried to build from the original sources though.

I always got a graphical environment after a bit of fiddling, but also experienced some very strange behaviour everytime. E.g. X always froze my box a when I killed it with ^AltBackspace. The machine also died when I tried to fall back to a VT via AltFx. Same when I exited the windowmanager.
Died means it wasn't accessible via the keyboard anymore nor via ssh.
The screen went just black and the only way to recover was a cold reboot.


I could derive some things that let X (and also my machine) die at startup:

- loading of vesa.ko
- using any cursor-icon except CORE
- Monitor Option "DPMS" set in configfile (OK, my monitor)

I've installed XFree 4.3 and X11R6.7 (XFree 4.4) on Linux and OpenBSD and never had any problems like those.

I'd be grateful if anybody could confirm this, since I'm not really sure that I'm the only one.

Thanks in advance
/Markus

X config: http://www.neuronenwerk.de/xconfig







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