Subject: Re: X won't run on current kernel
To: Valtteri Vuorikoski <vuori@sci.fi>
From: Ken Nakata <kenn@remus.rutgers.edu>
List: macbsd-development
Date: 07/06/1995 11:03:37
> Paul R. Goyette has randomly hit several keys, resulting in
> > > Actually, you can probably just exit out of the shells and it'll be OK
> > > again. dt doesn't let something like failure to init the graphics
> > > display stop it from trying to run... ;-)
> >
> > Exit from the shells? How? It's not accepting any input - nothing I
> > type echos back...
>
> It's getting stuck somewhere and not accepting input. The version I
> use here should exit when it can't init graphics, but doesn't. But in
> some cases you can expect commands to work, even though they don't
> echo.
No, it doesn't get stuck. It just can't display anything, but it
happily accepts input from you... ^d lets you exit.
Ken