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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!news.clark.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!hardy.u.washington.edu!spaz From: spaz@hardy.u.washington.edu (John Utz) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: XFree86 makes my screen unreadable Date: 16 Nov 1993 19:40:07 GMT Organization: University of Washington, Seattle Lines: 38 Message-ID: <2cbaan$jq1@news.u.washington.edu> References: <1993Nov8.184909.26637@mks.com> <BRIAN.93Nov12002743@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: hardy.u.washington.edu Keywords: XFree86-2.0 FreeBSD-1.0R Screenhang Hi Gang! My first Followup! I got stiffed with the same problem on exit from XF86-2.0 (ie no screen info other then the stdout from my Xconfig during startup and what "appears" to be a lockup). Annoying! Hit magic go away button! Anyway, I found that if i piped startx to something ( ie startx >& bogusfile ) just like u would using "X - probeonly" the mysterious satanic ASCII character 666hex (the unlisted, invisible one that hangs your machine!) wouldd be boxed up in a text file and ready to be sent off to oblivion (ie rm bogusfile) .. works for me ..give it a whack! Now for my heinous problem...Can any one think off hand why my X display would be nice on the edges and breaking up in the middle. It splits into two parts...i get an X cursor with a ghost and an xterm border with 1 cm long horizontal lines every 1cm or so . Hints would be welcome i think it's a synch pulse thing... ps skip flames about appropriateness to ngroup im posting this in x386 as well .. i just thought since i was here.... Later spaz Remember 2 things : if u are the parent of a two year old then Barney is Cool and when your life gets tuff just be thankful that u are not JMjr