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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!bigbang.astro.indiana.edu!pitts From: pitts@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu (Jim Pitts) Subject: Re: XFree86 1.3 & NetBSD Message-ID: <CE2Hr6.K5A@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: bigbang.astro.indiana.edu Organization: Indiana University Astrophysics, Bloomington, IN References: <1993Sep28.045956.3248@cs.sfu.ca> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 14:04:17 GMT Lines: 16 In article <1993Sep28.045956.3248@cs.sfu.ca> ballanty@cs.sfu.ca (Rob Ballantyne) writes: > > I am trying to install XFree with NetBSD. I have come upon a >stumbling block--The XFree install program that came with the 386BSD >version of XFree86 complains that I have a kernal that doesn't support >X. I looked around a bit and saw that there were pre-prepared kernals >for 386BSD but none for NetBSD. SO: > I had the same problem in my brief truggle with NetBSD. I was 100% sure I had build X into the kernel, The solution: I just ignored the message that the x386config script gave me and started X up. It worked fine. It seems that this script is not detecting correctly (or the kernel is not reporting correctly) that X is there. Jim