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#! rnews 1213 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!neoucom.edu!ns.mcs.kent.edu!kira.cc.uakron.edu!odin.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!caen!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Belgium.EU.net!news From: Bert Vandegaer <maillist3@ordab.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: XINIT or STARTX vs. ATI GX Mach64 Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 17:05:40 +0100 Organization: Orda-B NTS Lines: 15 Message-ID: <31177C54.2E@ordab.com> References: <4f30vt$l4j@over.mhv.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: gatekeeper.ordab.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b5 (Win95; I) Hi, Same problems here! I'm also a novice and trying to install FreeBSD 2.0.5 . A tip: $ startx > logfile 2>&1 This will write the flash of text to a file called 'logfile', so you can see where the troubles are. I think I resolved as much problems I can,but still my system crashes. I get the resolution I wanted, RAMDAC, ... when the fonts start to build, my screens turns black and the system hangs or restarts. So, please ... I need some help to ... sorry !!!! Tnx, Bert