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From: pitts@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu (Jim Pitts)
Subject: Re: XFree86 1.3 & NetBSD
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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 14:04:17 GMT
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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