Re: startx hard locks machine

[mlists <mlists@konjz.org>]

On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 12:03:16PM -0700, tedu wrote:
> 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.

i used mga driver. the log in /var/log is 0 size (X log) and there is
nothing in other logs. the machine hard locks, i tested with being
remotely logged with ssh while startx-ing. it doesn't even ping
afterwards.