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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD woes. Help needed here! ;(
Message-ID: <4p0oot$ntm@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk>
From: nbc@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk (Neil Brendan Clark)
Date: 4 Jun 1996 08:31:41 +0100
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In article <31b1c4d4.2162750@news.panix.com>, SeVeN <push@panix.com> wrote:
>I have been successful in mount the DOS primary partition and the CD-ROM drive.
>However I cannot figure out how to mount the logical partitions inside the DOS
>extended partitions.
AFAIK this is not possible at the moment with FreeBSD.
>Is it possible?? Also FreeBSD still doesn't support
>MultiFat or FAT16 a.k.a win95 FAT yet right or does it?
Again, I'm pretty much sure that it does not. However, if you use FreeBSD
quite a bit you may well find that things like DOS partitions become pretty
irrelevant after a while. Then again, you may not :-)
>Really nice looking X manager but there is some problems.
It is excellent, but you may well want to look into getting FVWM95, a
Windows 95 look-a-like effort that is actually uncannilly good. I use it
all the time now...
>I cannot get Xconsole to run. It keeps telling me cannot start console.
I think you may have to put a line like this in your kernel configuration;
options UCONSOLE #Allow users to grab the console
Unfortunately, this does not seem to work for me. However, if you look
into using xdm, you should be able to get xconsole working.
>also why does it keep starting
>with 1 login term and 2 extra Xterms?? I edited the .xinitrc in my home dir to
>just start up with 1 login term and 1 Xterm.
There are sections in the .fvwmrc file that start up programs when you first
crank it up. Just remove them.
>Also how do I make X startup with
>16bpp by default??
You should have a file called XF86Config somewhere, mine lives in /etc. In
this there will be a section called "Screen" beginning something like this;
Section "Screen"
Driver "accel"
Device "Diamond Stealth 64 DRAM with S3-Trio64"
Monitor "My Monitor"
Subsection "Display"
There will probably be a line in it stating "Depth 8" followed by a line
beginning with "Modes"; as a starter for 10, change the 8 to a 16 and see
what happens.
>how do ppl usually start programs in X with?? I've been starting them inside the
>Xterms or with the login term. however for many programs I keep having to do ^Z
>and then bg just to get my xterm control back and have the program not
>terminate.
If you want to start something in the background from the shell, place
an ampersand after the command, i.e. "xv &", which will do as you want. In
addition, with window managers like fvwm you also have the opportunity of
starting programs from menu items and button bars if you wish, or you may
well want to look into getting something like xfm, a file manager.
--
Neil Clark
Transparent Telepresence Group
<http://telepresence.dmem.strath.ac.uk/>