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From: cflatter@nrao.edu (Chris Flatters)
Subject: XFree86 problems on 386BSD
Message-ID: <1992Oct6.174929.12104@nrao.edu>
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Organization: NRAO
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 17:49:29 GMT
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I'm having some problems with the monochrome X server from XFree86 1.1 (downloaded
from agate).  Specifically, X386mono will display its startup messages, switch
the vga to graphics mode (displaying a few random dots) and then terminate after
about one second.  No core dump appears to have been generated.

Does anyone have any ideas about what might be going on?

System configuration:
	CompuAdd 325s with built-in VGA interface
	386BSD 0.1 with kernel patches from XFree86 distribution
	6 Mbytes memory
	12 Mbytes swap

	Chris Flatters
	cflatter@nrao.edu