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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!news.nd.edu!chi-news.cic.net!nntp.coast.net!oleane!in2p3.fr!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!svuse.ubs.com!svnews.ubinet.ubs.com!svusenet.ubs.ch!zhmte From: zhmte@zh014.ubs.ubs.ch (Andreas Meister) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Xfree86 Date: 20 Feb 1996 08:42:18 GMT Organization: Union Bank of Switzerland Lines: 27 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4gc1ha-p1p@svstch.ubs.ch> References: <4fveum$5a4@venera.isi.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: svcmd01.flur.zuerich.ubs.ch X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6] Gaetan Feige (gaetan@isi.edu) wrote: : : I have insatlled Xfree86 easily on a linux system. However : on the exact same machine I get : X connection to :0.0 broken( explicit kill or server shutdown) : when I installed Xfree with netbsd. : : i really do not know what is happening. : Any ideas ? : you may get more information when you start the Xserver manually (by just typing X at the console) Your error might be due to a missing support for the transport layer (no IP trasport configured in kernel). When starting the Xserver manually, you probably will loose control over your machine, as there will be no clients providing access to the OS. You either may 'reset-button' the PC or schedule a shutdown in background before running X. Andreas -- ___________________________________________________________________________ Andreas Meister, Union Bank of Switzerland, Lausanne, Switzerland e-mail: Andreas.Meister@ubs.ch, zhmte@svewbl01.bussigny.lausanne.ubs.ch phone: +41 21 702 88 23________here's one straight from the factory________