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- From: az7141633@v9001 (AZ7141633)
- Subject: [XFree86] Help needed badly
- Message-ID: <20NOV199220254593@v9001>
- News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41
- Keywords: Help, XFree86, 386BSD
- Sender: news@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (USENET News System)
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- Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 12:25:00 GMT
- Lines: 49
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- I am facing the same problem as what both Thanh Luu and S.X. Xue faced; but I
- could not find any replies to their queries in comp.unix.bsd.
- I would appreciate if anyone could help us get started with XFree86 and 386BSD.
- Thanks in advance.
-
- Sok
- Internet addr: az7141633@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg
- With Love from Nanyang Technological Univ of Singapore
-
-
- >X-NEWS: ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg comp.unix.bsd: 7901
- >From: tpl20@pswd.amdahl.com (Thanh Luu)
- >Subject: Problem starting up X
- >Date: 13 Nov 92 17:46:56 GMT
- >
- >I installed XFree86 and the kernel patch. When I tried to bring up X, using
- >xinit, I got the following message:
- >
- > XIO: fatal IO error 32 (broken pipe) on X server ":0.0"
- > after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining
- > The connection was probably broken by a server shutdown or KillClient
- >
- >What did I miss to do? Thanks in advance.
-
-
- >X-NEWS: ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg comp.unix.bsd: 7953
- >From: sxx4519@ultb.isc.rit.edu (S.X. Xue)
- >Subject: Starter needs help!
- >Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 08:20:39 GMT
- >
- >I recently installed a copy XFree86 on my newly installed 386BSD. I am
- >experiencing many problems. Hope experts out there would help me out.
- >
- >OS:
- > 386BSD binary distribution from agate.berkeley.edu
- > No source distribution, no etc dirstribution
- > Updated kernel for XFree86
- > XFree86 bininary distribution from the same ftp host
- > X server is set to X386mono (trying to start generic VGA mode)
- >
- >Problems:
- > Printer driver missing (/dev/lp)
- > C compiler does not work with floating point numbers
- > -- all numbers are rounded off to intgers
- > Mtools does not work,
- > message-- init: open: No such a file or dirctory
- > X server will not start,
- > message-- Fatal I/O error 32. Broken pipe on X server...
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