On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Gavin Hubbard wrote: > In section 5.4.2 it says to run "XFree86 -configure" as root to build the > initial configuration. Unfortunately this command has completely locked up > the system's primary console and I am unable to switch to a virtual terminal > to kill the offending process. > > First of all, what has gone wrong? (my framebuffer is supported by > XFree86-4). Second, how do I break out of the crashed console? Is there a > magic key combination I can use? The system seems to be alive (it responds > to pings) but I have not enabled telnet/ssh or any other remote admin tools.
Umm, I can't offer much help, but I found that my system behaved in the exact same manner when I installed XFree86 4.3. It works fine, however, with XFree86 4.2.0 and 4.2.1. It seems to be a problem with the video card driver recognizing the chipset correctly. Since I could get it to work with 4.2.x, I didn't bother investigating further. What's your video card? Mine is an ATI Radeon 7500. I've looked at www.xfree86.org, but haven't seen any indication that this has been reported as a problem. As far as recovering control of the system, I think you may have to power-cycle it. -- David Fleck [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
