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From: roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] Boot Problems & XFree Problems
Date: 25 Nov 1993 14:47:02 +0100
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In article <2cgpg5$acg@suntan.eng.usf.edu>,
Allen Gambert <gambert@zeus.csee.usf.edu> wrote:
>FreeBSD worked great for me, I just seem to have a problem getting XFree86-2.0 
>to work.  At one time I had 386bsd on this machine, and XFree86 worked fine.  
>I've tried everything but could not get XFree86 to work, I even used the same 
>Xconfig file, but that didn't work either.  When i try to run XFree86 the screen
>goes blank, than comes back, but X is not running, and all I can do is reboot 
>the system.  Is there anyway to get some sort of debugging output so I can see
>where its getting stuck?  Any help will be appreciated.

Try that :

put  syscons into your  kernel   with a  minimum  of  two or three  virtual
consoles and always start X from the second  one (ttyv1) not the first. The
problem seems that both  FreeBSD and the  X server are  trying to take away
the console (ttyv0) and sometimes X lose :-)

I didn't have a single booting problem with X since then.
-- 
Ollivier ROBERT                          Ollivier.Robert@keltia.frmug.fr.net
A FreeBSD & PERL addict...                    PGP 2.3a Public Key on request