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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!caen!hellgate.utah.edu!fcom.cc.utah.edu!park.uvcc.edu!ns.novell.com!thisbe.Eng.Sandy.Novell.COM!terry From: terry@thisbe.Eng.Sandy.Novell.COM (Terry Lambert) Subject: Re: FAQ questions: X386. Message-ID: <BvEuq0.FxA@Novell.COM> Sender: usenet@Novell.COM (Usenet News) Nntp-Posting-Host: thisbe.eng.sandy.novell.com Organization: Novell NPD -- Sandy, UT References: <1992Sep28.164224.22530@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <2AC73B5E.15562@ics.uci.edu> <1992Sep30.073852.15094@netcom.com> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 21:37:11 GMT Lines: 43 In article <1992Sep30.073852.15094@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes: >There is a reason why there are two separate releases of X386. >From an X11R5 besides the xconsole problem, all the questions/problems >with X386 have been answered with the release in >agate.berkeley.edu:/pub/incoming/X386. The /pub/incoming/X386 release >is waiting for kernel changes. Please, don't ask me for what kernel changes! >I know that is sounds strange... > >For questions such as the now famous "/dev/vga", please read the >readme file in /pub/incoming/X386. If you are experiencieng problems >with your mouse behavior such as in microsoft mode, just get >the release on /pub/incoming/X386. > >We will prepared a FAQ before the week is over and I will be >more than happy to send it to Terry. You actually ought to just keep it seperate. It is (I hope!) a natural division of labor, just like Nate is the guy you bug report to and Mike is the guy you send lists of working hardware to. The X FAQ ought to go in the /pub/386BSD/386bsd-0.1/unofficial directory on agate and get itself mirrored everywhere (just like the unofficial FAQ and the patches and ported software, etc, etc. is mirrored). On a side note, the kernel changes required to get the X386 in /pub/incoming running are in that directory, as is a patched kerenl (which mostly works). These patches are included in the patch kit as well, which is still on scedule and should be released at the end of 01 Oct 92 (tomorrow night). X386 from the /pub/incoming directory works fine for me on a kernel built from a virgin kernel with the patch kit applied. If there are new "magic" patches, I would like to include them or any changes to the patches in /pub/incoming/X386, but time is running out. Terry Lambert terry@icarus.weber.edu terry_lambert@novell.com --- Disclaimer: Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.