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From: felawka@sitka.triumf.ca (Larry Felawka)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: which Xfree for Freebsd?
Date: 28 Sep 1993 12:54:41 GMT
Organization: TRIUMF, Vancouver BC
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In article <289bit$1mb@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> felawka@sitka.triumf.ca (Larry Felawka) writes:
 > In article <646@apdnews.idca.tds.philips.nl> wilko@idca.tds.philips.nl (Wilko Bulte) writes:
 >>Time for a stupid question (?):
 >>
 >>Which version Xfree will run on FreeBSD? I have the 1.3 for 386BSD, but
 >>I don't know if that one will work. Weren't there changes in the
 >>console driver for FreeBSD?
 >>
 >>Input appreciated
 >>
 >>Wilko
 >
 >I use FreeBSD 1.0-GAMMA with XFree86 1.2 and they run beautifully together
                                       ~~~
 >(at least with xdm).  The only glitch I have noticed (and it is a very minor
 >one) is in the installation shell script "x386install"; I had to modify it to
 >suppress "grep" output.
 >
 >Larry

Oops!  I meant XFree86 1.3.

Larry