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From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Subject: Re: SCSI Tape and X11R5 questions
Message-ID: <d0znj7q.hasty@netcom.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 92 02:27:54 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
References: <47606@shamash.cdc.com>
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In article <47606@shamash.cdc.com> pbd@runyon.cim.cdc.com (Paul Dokas) writes:
>I have two rather basic 8-) questions about 386BSD 0.1:
>
>  1) I want to build X11 preferably R5 for my 386.  I've increased
>     the swap to 24MB, applied as many patches as I could find and
>     now I'm stuck.  I know that I have to get XFree86 (probably from
>     agate), but do I also need the MIT X11R5 distribution?  My
	You need to get mit-1, mit-2 and maybe mit-3 if you are
	good at building X you may get by without mit-3.
	Also, you will need patch levels 1 to 16.
	Finally, the instructions and patches on how to build
	X11R5 are in the README in agate.berkeley.edu:/pub/incoming/X386

	There is also under the same directory in agate a patch
	kit for the kernel. 
	
>     question is basically:  what source do I need to ftp to build
>     X11R5 on my 386-40 (TVGA 512K, God I hope that there's a driver
>     for this card!)
	could you please look in the card and send me the svga 
	chip name/model. A good chipset that works with Xfree86 is et4000
	you can get clones for about $125 now days. Also, the
	next upcoming release of Xfree86 has support for Trident
	which are dirt cheap around $85.

>
>Thanks for the help!
>
>Paul Dokas
>pbd@runyon.cim.cdc.com
>
>BTW many thanks to Terry Lambert for the patchkit!  I applied all 19
>    patches to my system and rebuilt it in less than 30 minutes.
>    When are the rest of the ~30 patches coming out?
>-- 


Amancio Hasty