X Window problem

[CARTER Anthony]

Ah, I've had that before....the getty stuff...

ok, post your entry from /etc/ttys for /dev/ttyv8

should be something like:


ttyv8   "/usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon"  xterm   on  secure

verify that you don't have 2 entries...Now, while you do that I'll rack my 
brain to remember what I did to stop that...

Anthony


On Tuesday 06 May 2003 14:38, Gary and El Byrnes wrote:
> I actually don't know. I tried searching www.fcc.gov
> <http://www.fcc.gov>  for it but no data. I tried reducing to what you
> suggested. The screen rapidly flashes from the command prompt to black.
> When I hit ctrl+alt+del I can see a message "getty repeating too quickly
> on port /dev/ttyv8, sleeping 30 secs". ?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: CARTER  <mailto:a.carter at cordis.lu> Anthony
> To: Gary and El Byrnes <mailto:elgaz at iprimus.com.au>  ; Matthew Seaman
> <mailto:m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk>  ; CARTER Anthony
> <mailto:a.carter at cordis.lu>
> Cc: Eduardo Viruena Silva <mailto:mrspock at esfm.ipn.mx>  ;
> freebsd-questions at freebsd.org <mailto:freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 10:02 PM
> Subject: Re: X Window problem
>
> How much RAM is on your S3 Trio64? Are you sure you are not trying to
> get a
> resolution that your card has not enough RAM for?
>
> Try reducing colours to 16-bit and screen resolution to 800x600 and test
>
> that...
>
> Anthony
>
> On Tuesday 06 May 2003 13:41, Gary and El Byrnes wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I am so glad I learnt so much already. I rebooted several times and
>
> ran
>
> > mount -a and it didn't give me any error messages.
> >
> > I tried playing around with my system and I can't get X to work. Could
> > somebody please help me. I am wondering what would be the closest
>
> ranges
>
> > I should pick to get this to work. I tried a few and they didn't work.
> >
> > Thank you in advance.
> >
> > Elvira
> >
> > Video card: S3 Trio64
> > Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 171s -
> > Horizontal Rate
> > Vertical Rate
> > Maximum Pixel Rate 30 ~ 81 KHz
> > 56 ~ 76 Hz
> > 135MHz
> > 1280 x 1024
> > VGA 640 x 480 @ 85Hz
> > SVGA 800 x 600 @ 85 Hz
> > XGA 1024 x 768 @ 85 Hz
> > SXGA 1284 x 1024 @ 76Hz
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Matthew Seaman < mailto:m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk
>
> <mailto:m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> >
>
> > To: CARTER Anthony < mailto:a.carter at cordis.lu
>
> <mailto:a.carter at cordis.lu> >
>
> > Cc: Eduardo Viruena Silva < mailto:mrspock at esfm.ipn.mx
>
> <mailto:mrspock at esfm.ipn.mx> >  ; Gary and El
>
> > < mailto:elgaz at iprimus.com.au <mailto:elgaz at iprimus.com.au> > Byrnes ;
>
> freebsd-questions at freebsd.org <mailto:freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
>
> > < mailto:freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>
> <mailto:freebsd-questions at freebsd.org> >
>
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 9:19 PM
> > Subject: Re: X Window problem