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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!ns.hicom.net!djw.hicom.net!djw From: "David J. Wilson" <djw@hicom.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: X312 Problem Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 20:40:28 -0500 Organization: HICom, Inc. Lines: 31 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951124202930.768A-100000@djw.hicom.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: djw.hicom.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I'm just wondering if anyone else has had this problem or knows why it would occur - I installed the required X utils and the rest of things which I felt necessary. Anyway, I went about my normal routine of configuring it (I used xf86config) and then proceeded to modify the configuration file it built to fit my computer perfectly. From what I can tell, it did. Everything looks fine -- everything boots perfect when doing X -probeonly. Anyway, I boot into X, it blinks the background for about half a second, and then proceeds to lock my entire system. Not just the local keyboard, the entire system. No control-alt-delete or control-alt-backspace would get me out of this, and even when I did a shutdown for one minute later, then ran X, the system never shut down, so I'm assuming here that it kills my entire system. So I'm thinking it's the video card. I check all the values in the configuration to make sure they are correct, fix a few things, remodify everything so that *everything* is exactly how it should be. Well, the same problem still happens just as it always did, with no errors on bootup. My only thoughts now are that it tries to init the mouse and somehow that crashes the system. I use a PS/2 aux mouse (compiled in the kernel) and made the device /dev/psm0. I was told that I should get a response if I did a cat </dev/psm0, but all I get is a "cat: stdin: Resource temporarily unavailable", so I'm a bit stuck here. I added the line for PS/2 mice exactly how I should have (taken from the LINT file). Anyway, if anyone knows why this is happening or can suggest anything, I'd appreciate it very much. Thanks in advance, ..djw (djw@hicom.net)