From: peter@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au Subject: a new X11 problem... Date: 18 May 1992 08:56:38 GMT
Please give me some advice. I'm using a Sphere 486, (4 Meg Ram) and a 30 MB
Linux and a 9 MB swap partition. I have an A4 mouse (microsoft + Mouse systems
compatable), and a 1 MB Tseng Lab E4000 SVGA.
I installed Linux.96 with no problems - though on booting I occasionally get
a few registers dumped in between the "..."'s after the "LOADING" message.
I attributed this to the speed of my machine wrt drives??? Anyway - no
other problems with applications ***except X11 ***
On running startx (or even just X386 directly), all I get is the introduction
message (2 lines) and then a hang. I installed from scratch 3 times - same
result. I've had help from a friend who installed it successfully on his machine
but he can't find anything wrong with my installation.
X386 doesn't respond to keypresses etc until reboot, (^C and ^Z no use). Other
processes (ALT-F2 etc) still usable though.
I used PS (from another process) and found that process a1 (the hang) was
still there, and was using 0% CPU. status was read-stream - just like that
of ALT-F3 etc (ie unused, unlogged-into screens).
Can anybody give me some clues? I have run out of ideas. I would try to
test it with the X11 src, but I don't have enough disk space. BTW - where
ARE the sources?
Peter