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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.unomaha.edu!cwis!wigodsky
From: wigodsky@cwis.unomaha.edu (Andrew Wigodsky)
Subject: HHELP BEFORE I GO INSANE (X386 and Bsd)
Message-ID: <wigodsky.715853108@cwis>
Sender: news@news.unomaha.edu (UNO Network News Server)
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 08:05:08 GMT
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Well.. here's the deal.  I'm trying desperately to get 
X386 to work on my system.  I have a 386-40 w/ 80mb 
partition for UNIX on a IDE MAxtor..  My video is 1MB
Diamond Speedstar Plus... 

I got all the /usr/bin and /usr/lib etc... installed,
and after I finally figured out the /dev/vga problem,
I tried running X386.. well, it SORTA worked, and KINDA
locked up, but after that, any time I try to run X or X386 
or startx or xinit, I get BIG PROBLEMS...  It gives 
the X386 startup message, and then hangs...

The only hint I get is that it leaves a "core.X386" file
as a residue of sorts..

Anyone have any clues what I am doing wrong?

I'm lost...  I wanna go back home to msdosland... :(

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kinetix@unomaha.edu                     I haven't had
wigodsky@unomaha.edu                      time to make my
                                       signature yet...

(my actual emails are kinetix@thor.unomaha and 
wigodsky@cwis.unomaha, but some nameservers dont
recognize them... PLEASE email me if you can help...)

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