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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!olivea!uunet!destroyer!news.iastate.edu!musik From: musik@iastate.edu Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: X386 and lpt woes... Message-ID: <1992Aug7.201957.2093@news.iastate.edu> Date: 7 Aug 92 20:19:57 GMT Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA Lines: 72 Well... first off, my sincere thanks and applause to the Jolitz's for their fine OS! I've had more fun and learned more in the passed weeks than in any number of classes I've taken. :) Also, thanks to those out there writing patches for those of us who are just learning. :) Your efforts are sincerely appreciated. First about X :) I've installed everything where it belongs, edited the Xconfig, and replaced the original kernel with the one in the biary distribution. I run the little script mentioned in the X386.FAQ and... it crunches away for a while and then locks, hopelessly, _never having gone into graphics mode_. I recompiled the kernel myself, using the pccons, locore, and stdlib patches. With that kernel, xdm keeps trying, ad infinitum, to open the server. Last time I let it go, it tried 750 times. *laugh* Another curious little thing: after I install the X binaries, whenever I reboot, it tells me: find: ./.X11-unix No such file or directory xdm -debug 1 > file yields something like the following: (Much MUCH chopped out here, these two lines seemed most relevant.) signals blocked, mask was 0x0 Display exited with OPENFAILED_DISPLAY, try 0 of 4 I've also tried running X386 directly from the command line. I get the startup info, about X itself, and then, once again before entering graphics mode, it locks up, accepting nothing short of a Ctrl-Alt-Del or a swift kick to the reset button. :) Also tried xinit, startx, etc, etc... with similar results. Ummm... I'm trying all this as root, so that's not the problem. Anything else I need to tell the experts out there? :) Config: EPS 30486-33MHz 8M RAM 212M HD (142 to BSD) Cardinal Video Card w/1M RAM (ET4000 chipset) (This card _is_ mentioned in the modeDB.txt file included with the distribution. I've made the suggested changes to the Xconfig.) Is a .xinitrc file _needed_ to start X? Or can it start without one? I don't have one... articles I just read mentioned what to put in one. Will that solve my problems? Now about lpt. :) I 'patch'ed Eric Haug's (sorry for spelling errors :) lpt-patch. I'm sure it works great... except for the fact that my system knows nothing of the lpt.h header which is required. (The patch adds #include <lpt.h> to conf.c.) I've looked for it with 'find' to no avail, and archie doesn't know lpt.h either. Where do I get this file? Is it right under my nose somewhere? Thanks in advance for all your help, folx, Damien Guay musik@iastate.edu P.S. Was anything more ever decided about creating a 386bsd newsgroup? I think comp.os.386bsd was the suggestion. Is it coming?