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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!nntp.gmd.de!news.rwth-aachen.de!newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de!aix11.hrz.uni-oldenburg.de!uniol!nordwest.pop.de!informatik.uni-bremen.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!sirius.physik.fu-berlin.DE!not-for-mail From: graichen@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: some freeBSD questions Date: 24 May 1995 07:31:31 GMT Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin Lines: 57 Message-ID: <3puncj$8dn@fu-berlin.de> References: <3pmpjn$aof$1@mhade.production.compuserve.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de (130.133.3.140) X-Access: 16 17 18 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] jerome christatos (100306.235@CompuServe.COM) wrote: : Hello, : I bought freeBSD 2.0 form Walnut Creek and it works fine, but : I have some questions. : I have a 486/66 vesa local bus with 1 Gb HD, 16 Mb ram and a 4 : speed Mitsumi CD with its own card. : 1) Why FreeBSD doesn't recognise my CD ? i think this is a IDE/ATAPI CDROM - which will be supported (as far as i know) in the next release (2.0.5) which will come out in the next days : 2) in XFree86 how can you set the "click and paste" feature for : the mouse ? maybe you only have an 2 button mouse (or a threebutton mouse in 2 button mode) - then you have to enable the Emulate3Buttons option - look into the man-page for XF86Config or you have to try various other mouse settings (mouse systems is one with 3 buttons) but some of the 2/3 button mouses (... the "hold the lft button while booting to get the 3 button mode" mouses ...) you can't get into a 3 button mode (... ok you may hold the button at every boot ... :-) but some you can using the ClearDTR and Clear... options in XF86Config - again look into the man-page of XF86Config : 4) On the cover of the box the date is January 1995 but on the CD : it is January 1994 ? it's a typo : 5) How can you use the Xfree fonts ( and there is a lot ) with : ghostscript ? you may only use PS fonts for ghostscript (i.e. the ones in the Type1 dir ... and that are not so many) : 7) Does FreeBSD support a king of multithreading ? i think the pthreads package (user lever threads) is working with FreeBSD with some minor changes sipb.mit.edu:/pub/pthreads or toxicwaste:/pub/archive/pthreads and contact dayton@robeson.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu (Dayton Clark) for the patches hope this helps - t _______________________________________________________||_____________________ __|| Perfection is reached, not when there is no __|| thomas graichen longer anything to add, but when there __|| freie universitaet berlin is no longer anything to take away __|| fachbereich physik __|| - Antoine de Saint-Exupery - __|| ___________________________||____email: graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de____