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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!hookup!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!epiwrl.entropic.com!usenet From: kenh@wrl.epi.com (Ken Hornstein) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: XFree86 Installation problems Date: 17 Mar 1994 13:29:17 -0500 Organization: Entropic Research Laboratory, Washington DC Lines: 26 Message-ID: <2ma7ht$oeo@sparc10.entropic.com> References: <763834131tim.news@xplora.toppoint.de> Reply-To: kenh@wrl.epi.com NNTP-Posting-Host: sparc10.entropic.com In article <763834131tim.news@xplora.toppoint.de>, Tim Weilkiens <tim@xplora.toppoint.de> wrote: >I think my Xconfig file is wrong. Starting X (startx) I get the >following output: > >Informations about graphic drivers >Information about the path of the Xconfig file >Information about the font paths > >Then nothing happens. Typing something it appears on the screen, >but nothing happens. The only way out is to reset the computer. Try redirecting the output of startx into a file - ie: startx >& foo.out (using the C shell) You should be able to see what sorts of errors you have in your Xconfig by looking at foo.out. If you still have trouble with your console hanging, try putting a "kbd_mode -a" on the command line after startx; that should make your console come back. Ie - startx >& foo.out ; kbd_mode -a --Ken