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X11 hangs on exit
Hi all,

does anyone know an easy to read manual for newbies introducing X11 - more specifically how to open windows, resizing them, etc...?
I namely installed FreeBSD 7.0 on an old HP omnibook xe4100 notebook because it's less demanding in resources. So far so good, everything went smooth except when leaving the graphical environment. The laptop hangs, the screen goes black. I tried to use xinit and startx to get X11 running (which they both do well) but both result in the same problem when quitting. As I understood from the BSD handbook the xinit is used to automate or script the startup of X11, not really to start it. Can this problem be related to the graphical interface?
I selected the generic interface when installing BSD since the Neomagic Magicgraph NM 2160 - NM 64 was not listed in their db.

A second question I have (probably a very stupid one) is about the terminals in unix: could one run x11 with for instance Opera and the other terminals continue to function in normal text mode?

Many thanks in advance,

erik
 
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freebsd-version

FREEBSD-VERSION(1)					    BSD General Commands Manual 					FREEBSD-VERSION(1)

NAME

     freebsd-version -- print the version and patch level of the installed system

SYNOPSIS

     freebsd-version [-ku]

DESCRIPTION

     The freebsd-version utility makes a best effort to determine the version and patch level of the installed kernel and / or userland.

     The following options are available:

     -k 	 Print the version and patch level of the installed kernel.  Unlike uname(1), if a new kernel has been installed but the system
		 has not yet rebooted, freebsd-version will print the version and patch level of the new kernel.

     -u 	 Print the version and patch level of the installed userland.  These are hardcoded into freebsd-version during the build.

     If both -k and -u are specified, freebsd-version will print the kernel version first, then the userland version, on separate lines.  If nei-
     ther is specified, it will print the userland version only.

IMPLEMENTATION NOTES

     The freebsd-version utility should provide the correct answer in the vast majority of cases, including on systems kept up-to-date using
     freebsd-update(8), which does not update the kernel version unless the kernel itself was affected by the latest patch.

     To determine the name (and hence the location) of a custom kernel, the freebsd-version utility will attempt to parse
     /boot/defaults/loader.conf and /boot/loader.conf, looking for definitions of the kernel and bootfile variables, both with a default value of
     ``kernel''.  It may however fail to locate the correct kernel if either or both of these variables are defined in a non-standard location,
     such as in /boot/loader.rc.

ENVIRONMENT

     ROOT  Path to the root of the filesystem in which to look for loader.conf and the kernel.

EXAMPLES

     To determine the version of the currently running userland:

	   /bin/freebsd-version -u

     To inspect a system being repaired using a live CD:

	   mount -rt ufs /dev/ada0p2 /mnt
	   env ROOT=/mnt /mnt/bin/freebsd-version -ku

SEE ALSO

     uname(1), loader.conf(5), freebsd-version(8)

HISTORY

     The freebsd-version command appeared in FreeBSD 10.0.

AUTHORS

     The freebsd-version utility and this manual page were written by Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@FreeBSD.org>.

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