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From: nick@quay.ie (Nick Hilliard)
Subject: Re: Problems with xv-3.00a and a question.
Message-ID: <1994Jan5.173539.28811@quay.ie>
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 1994 17:35:39 GMT
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garbled@indirect.com spoke thus:
: I am running Netbsd 0.9 on a 386-40 (4 megs)  (makes you sick huh?)
: and am runing Xfree86 2.0.   I recently compiled xv3.00a from the sources
: and am having a strange problem with it.  It compiles fine.. with no
: warnings, nor errors..  But when run.. it simpy sits there..  does
: nothing.   Ive put it in the bg, fg, killed it repeatedly and re-ran it..
: but all to no avail..  no windows are made.. and seemingly no effort is
: even made to create one.

I honestly don't think that there is enough real memory on your machine for
xv to run.  With the NetBSD kernel taking up at least 1Mb, X another 1.5 -> 2,
and various other programs taking at least 1 or 2 megs more, that leaves you
with no real memory to load anything with.  And xv is *really* big - I'm not
sure about NetBSD, but on a Sparc, it takes up about 1.7Mb of physical
memory.  I'm not surprised in the least that you can't get it to work!

: Also..  i was wondering if there was a way for me to increase my virtual
: screen size to something like 1600x1200 even though i do not have video
: memory to contain that.  Is there any sort of program, or window manager
: that would allow me to scroll around the screen like this, without loading
: it all into VRAM?

You mean put the data into hyper-virtual-setup-memory? Ahm, no. (But if you
*do* find some way of doing it, please let me know :-) Seriously, though,
depending on how it works, fvwm may be able to do something for you)

Memory isn't *that* expensive.  It would be worth your while saving up a few
bucks to get some.

Nick
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