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From: venkat@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Venkat)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: XFree86 gives me a blank screen ! [SOLVED]
Keywords: X Xfree86 install
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Date: 5 Oct 92 14:15:46 GMT
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venkat@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Venkat Swaminathan) writes:

>Hi folks,

>I downloaded the XFree86 binaries from agate:/pub/incoming/X386 and have been
>[unsuccessfully] trying to install XFree86. After I type 'sh startx' or 
>'xinit' there is a 3-4 second pause and then the message "Waiting for X
>server to begin accepting connections" followed by a number of periods - two
>to a line. After a minute or two the screen just blanks and nothing short of a
>reboot will get the screen back. The keyboard is apparently working because
>of the disk activity pattern when I type a command etc.  I have spent hours
>on trying out different values in the Xconfig file to no avail. I am using the
>kernel binary from agate:/pub/incoming/X386/386bsd.kernel... whatever.

>DETAILS:
>	386/25 MHz machine with 4MB RAM/125MB HD; Diamond Speedstar VGA video
>	card with 1MB video RAM; MAG PMV 1448 monitor; Microsoft compatible
>	mouse on com1.

>Any help will be appreciated either by email or USENET. Thanks !

	I ran xdm and upon checking the xdm-errors file saw error messages
	of the out-of-memory type. Apparently I had not bothered to check
	that the resolutions that I was setting in the Xconfig file would
	fit in the available memory !

	NOTE: Of the different resolutions that I had entered in the Xconfig
	file, only *one* required more memory than that availlable and yet
	*none* of the resolutions would work - would it be possible [in the
	next version, maybe] that XFree86 display atleast the possible
	resolutions rather than come crashing down for one teeny weeny fault
	:-)

	Thanks for all the responses anyway.

	Venkat

>Venkat