XFree86 server crash.

[john]

ENVIRONMENT.

>
> Compaq Presario sr1053wm.
>
> I can't provide log files at this point because freebsd  works badly 
> on my machine.
>
> DESCRIPTION
> ---------------
>
> I have installed freebsd  5.2.1 about 20 times with various options on 
> my machine. The result is always the same.
> The XFree 86 server always crashes.
>
>
> THIS IS PROBABLY NOT DUE TO BAD DISKS.
>
> I have tried disks from two different sources, including the boxed 
> set. I have also tried version 5.0.
>
>
> XFREE86 DOES WORK ON MY HARDWARE
>
> I also have Openbsd and Suse on the same machine.  XFree86 works on 
> both of these systems. (note I am using partition magic)
>
>
> I HAVE HAD SEVERAL PROBLEMS INSTALLING XFREE86.
>
>  1.. Xconfig reports and error and asks me if I want to try again.
>
>  2  ncursses doesn't work either. It didn't write a config file at all .

3. The script version wrote a config file but xfree86 still crashed.

>
>  4. Leaving x alone doesn't work either.
>
>  5. The computer hangs when I chose the "exit install" option. 
> (unplugging first doesn't help).
>
>  6  I have tried several different configuration settings including 
> all of the different ones
>      suggested by the Compaq support staff.(  they don't really know  
> what is in their boxes )
>      All of the configuration settings that I have tried have been on 
> the conservative side.
>
>
> WHERE ARE THE LOG FILES?
>
> My installation of Freebsd doesn't work well enough for me to send 
> them. Programs like Mozilla don;t work.
> (probably needs x).. I have not been able to get FreeBSD to mount a 
> foreign file system so I can't use Windows
> or Linux to send the logs.
>
> HOW TO REPEAT THE PROBLEM
>
> Try to install FreeBSD on a Presario sr1053wm. Good luck!
>
>
> DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS AS TO HOW TO PROCEED?


> John
>
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