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From: fwmiller@cs.umd.edu (Frank W. Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Comparison
Date: 5 Sep 1995 09:28:13 -0400
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <42f4c4$rj2@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>,
J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
>Frank W. Miller <fwmiller@cs.umd.edu> wrote:
>
>>If you missed my previous post, FreeBSD recognizes my old HardCard XL,
>>NetBSD did not.  I ended up having to remove it tho, it crashed the 
>>installation after the device probe phase.
>
>Curious: what exactly is it?
>

It's a 50Mbyte IDE hard disk and controller all built together into a 
single card.  I've used it mainly as a back up during this last couple
of years.

>>The fonts I used in XFree under NetBSD look different under FreeBSD, this
>>is probably due to a different X server config but I don't know.  One
>
>I think it's a question whether the 75dpi or 100dpi font directory is
>included first in the FontPath.
>

Good thought, I'll check that.

>The default behaviour for FreeBSD (until XFree86 3.1.1) was to inherit
>the NumLock LED setting to the X server...

I thank you and all who sent me email about this obviously well
understood problem, uncommenting the XF86Config line solved the problem.

Later,
FM

-- 
Frank W. Miller                                 Department of Computer Science
fwmiller@cs.umd.edu                       University of Maryland, College Park
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~fwmiller                   College Park, Maryland 20742