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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!news.azstarnet.com!not-for-mail From: circle@azstarnet.com ( Circle) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Stupid XFree86 and FreeBSD questions.... Date: 6 Feb 1996 22:38:20 GMT Organization: Arizona Daily Star - AZSTARNET Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4f8l8s$8e5@news.azstarnet.com> References: <4f5g65$ltt@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: web.azstarnet.com X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Nicholas C. Weaver (nweaver@madrone.cs.berkeley.edu) wrote: : How do I convince X to use a real screensize of 1280x1024 : or 1024x768, and 8 or 16 bit color? (Using the S3 optimized X server, : of course). Look for the line in your XF86Config file that starts with the word Virtual (I don't remember exactly where it is!). Change it to the correct size for your screen. : And what are the commands for manipulating floppies (both : MessyDOS and *NIX)? : You have to mount floppies, cdroms, DOS partitions, etc. before you can access them. Use the mount_msdos or mount_cd9660 commands. Or, just mount if it's a FFS floppy. See the man page for fdformat and mount. Tim