Re: startx hard locks machine

[tedu <grendel@zeitbombe.org>]

On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, mlists wrote:

> I'm trying to install OpenBSD on a A7V333 board with AMD XP 1800+ and
> starting X hard-locks the machine every time. I've tried 3 different
> cards so far, all AGP: Matrox G200, Riva TNT2 and Geforce 2 GTS. I
> tried nv driver for NVidias, and also vesa and vga. The machine has 256
> megs of PC2100 ram (1 chip), a hard drive and a floppy. I did a
> network install off of my fileserver of 3.1-release, and 3.1-snapshot.

try to get matrox running first, they have better support.  make sue
your're using the mga driver.  and look in /var/log.  there may a record
detailing where everything stopped.  it may also be that only the
console is locked, and remote access is still possible.


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