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From: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help on XFree86 3.1.1 under FreeBSD 2.0
Date: 15 May 1995 09:52:36 GMT
Organization: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
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In article <3oubqq$7b8@overload.lbl.gov>, Jin Guojun[ITG] <jin@gracie.lbl.gov> wrote:
>
> If FreeBSD requires libgcc.so.261.0 for its installation, then
> libgcc.so.261.0 should be in the installation package. Add
> libgcc.so.261.0 later on, causes X environment is not set up.
I agree it should be included, at least until the XFree86 people
deprecate the current FreeBSD binaries and begin distributing ones
that are linked under 2.0.5.
>MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernal support
This is not available in the default kernel, but I always build a
custom kernel anyway, and the SysV shared memory extensions are
something I always add in. Not required, but nice to have.
>PEXEntensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file Roman_M
Don't know about this... looks like an XFree86 problem, not a
FreeBSD one.
>Fatal server error:
>Cannot open mouse (Device not configured)
Again, a problem with XFree86. Unless you tell it otherwise, it
will look for a device called /dev/mouse. You can either create a
symbolic link from /dev/tty00 (if your mouse is on COM1) to
/dev/mouse, or edit your /etc/XF86Config file to use /dev/tty00.
>FreeBSD should make itself easy to configure and work reliable. I like BSD
>since it is much more professional than Linux. However, this time, I did
>hang here and cannot figure out what I can do by myself. I am very new to
>FreeBSD. If I did some thing worng on installation, I will stand corrected.
The first couple times are always the roughest. I'm sitting at
the console of our newest addition to the lab (received shipment of
two PC's this morning). The longest part of getting these machines up
and running was 1) wrestling with uncooperative Ethernet adapters, 2)
waiting for our 16-port network hub to arrive, 3) setting up the
furniture on which the PC's will be placed and 4) making a new
twisted-pair cable because the one supplied had a break in it. Once
those were taken care of, I spent 10 minutes at the keyboard working
the installer, then walked away while it dutifully installed itself
from an NFS-mounted FreeBSD mirror. Gotta love that. :)
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org