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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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Protocol::Connection(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				 Protocol::Connection(3pm)

NAME
X11::Protocol::Connection - Perl module abstract base class for X11 client to server connections SYNOPSIS
# In connection object module package X11::Protocol::Connection::CarrierPigeon; use X11::Protocol::Connection; @ISA = ('X11::Protocol::Connection'); sub open { ... } sub give { ... } sub get { ... } sub fh { ... } ... # In program $connection = X11::Protocol::Connection::CarrierPigeon ->open($host, $display_number); $x = X11::Protocol->new($connection); $connection->give($data); $reply = unpack("I", $connection->get(4)); use IO::Select; $sel = IO::select->new($connection->fh); if ($sel->can_read == $connection->fh) ... DESCRIPTION
This module is an abstract base class for the various X11::Protocol::Connection::* modules that provide connections to X servers for the X11::Protocol module. It provides stubs for the following methods: open $conn = X11::Protocol::Connection::Foo->open($host, $display_num) Open a connection to the specified display (numbered from 0) on the specified $host. give $conn->give($data) Send the given data to the server. Normally, this method is used only by the protocol module itself. get $data = $conn->get($n) Read $n bytes of data from the server. Normally, this method is used only by the protocol module itself. fh $filehandle = $conn->fh Return an object suitable for use as a filehandle. This is mainly useful for doing select() and other such system calls. AUTHOR
Stephen McCamant <SMCCAM@cpan.org>. SEE ALSO
perl(1), X11::Protocol, X11::Protocol::Connection::Socket, X11::Protocol::Connection::FileHandle, X11::Protocol::Connection::INETSocket, X11::Protocol::Connection::UNIXSocket, X11::Protocol::Connection::INETFH, X11::Protocol::Connection::UNIXFH. perl v5.14.2 2003-01-27 Protocol::Connection(3pm)