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- From: Lou Berger <lberger@BBN.COM>
- Subject: Re: SLS Mono X386 Goes Looney: Help!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.155104.25115@athena.mit.edu>
- Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
- Reply-To: lberger@BBN.COM
- Organization: The Internet
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:51:04 GMT
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- I linked X386mono to X, and Xconfig.mono to Xconfig. X Windows
- starts, complains about not finding a certain signal, then fills my
- screen with vertical bars and completely hangs the system -- even
- [Cntrl]-[Alt]-[Del], [Cntrl]-[Alt]-[BS] etc. do nothing, and the
- update daemon doesn't spin the drive. As a result, I cannot redirect
- output to a file, because the file will never be written to disk
- before the system hangs and has to be powered down.
-
- Ok, I had the same problem (as did someone else who asked this same
- question sometime in the last two weeks.) The problem comes from having
- the wrong device specified in your Xconfig. (I had /dev/ttys2 rather
- then /dev/ttys0.)
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- I don't really understand why having the wrong device specified should
- cause the whole system to lock up. I spent some time trying to trap any
- error output prior to the system freezing. The only thing I saw was
- that xinit dies due to a signal 10. Is this scenario a known
- problem/bug? Does someone want to add this problem/solution to an
- appropriate README/INSTALL/FAQ file.
-
- Lou Berger
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- (BBN - Not my employer, just my mail address.)
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