From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98) I have installed wolverine clean - formatted appropriate partitions. When I run XFree86 from X terminal the screen hangs. I can move the mouse cursor. I can see the process running from a ssh client. When I kill the xfree process I can nolonger move mouse - for all intents and purposes the machine is hung and requires a hardware reset. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.login (root) 2.XFree86 3. Actual Results: grey background with big black cross Expected Results: More than this Intel Pentium Pro 200 Virge DX 4MB Digital PCXBV-PG 14" monitor at 800x600 PS/2 mouse
Sounds like you are new to Linux and are not using X windows correctly. You don't execute "XFree86" from an xterminal. XFree86 is the name of the implementation of X11. It is also the name of the server binary which you do not execute by hand. To start X windows, you either boot your system into runlevel 3, then log in and run "startx", or you boot your system into runlevel 5 and log in using gdm/kdm/xdm. If you actually log in, and run the command "XFree86", you will get exactly what you told it to do - to execute the raw X server binary with no applications, no desktop, nothing. You'll end up with black and white herringbone pattern on the screen with an "X" mouse pointer, and that is it. This is correct behaviour and not a bug. You might want to read the Red Hat Linux users guide to get up to speed. There are also HOWTO documents in /usr/share/doc/HOWTO that are good for the beginner as well. Good luck, and have fun.