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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:4866 comp.os.386bsd.misc:885 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!pipex!sunic!kth.se!mumrik.nada.kth.se!d88-jwn From: d88-jwn@mumrik.nada.kth.se (Johan Wåhlin) Subject: Re: How get XFree86 on disk? Message-ID: <1993Sep6.125645.23531@kth.se> Sender: usenet@kth.se Nntp-Posting-Host: mumrik.nada.kth.se Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, NADA References: <111353@hydra.gatech.EDU> Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1993 12:56:45 GMT Lines: 25 I just installed XFree86; Rename the files as to fit the msdos 8.3 naming Put the files on ms-dos disks Load the files somewhere (maybee /usr/distrib) with: /usr/local/bin/mread a:\\\* . For all distribution set do: cat <distrib name>* | gunzip | ( cd /usr ; tar xvf -) Go to /usr/X386/lib/X11/etc and check out the install script. Run it when satisfied (probably as root). Edit /usr/X386/lib/Xconfig to suit your hardware, see /usr/X386/lib/X11/etc for details. There is a template file: /usr/X386/lib/X11/Xconfig.blablah Edit /etc/ttys. Instructions are already located in this file. There is a readme file in /usr/X386 also. After doing this I still have one problem though; My keyboard will hang after a while in X. I have not gotten any clue as to why this happens, I thought it might have something to do with syslogd writing messages to the console (xconsole) as this sometimes upsets the ordinary (no X) console as to not accept ctrl-sequences. At least I think that is the cause for the no-X-console hickups, login out and login in again cures the problem 8). * gunzip above should possibly be "uncompress -c" instead. -- /Johan W}hlin (.. where the } really is an a with a ring above it.. 8))