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From: visnurpk@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Rich Kernin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: XFree86... Help!
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Date: 3 Nov 92 04:32:00 GMT
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Hello,

   Could some kindly X Wizard help me out?  I've got 386BSD running on our
network pretty stable, so I figured I would try XFree86.  Copied X from agate,
and installed it w/o problems.  I've got a Samsung SyncMaster 3 monitor with
a no name (as far as I can tell) SVGA card (WDC WD90C30 chip w/1 meg.).
Have a Microsoft mouse on com1 (how do you configure a mouse for 386BSD,
couldn't find it anywhere).  This is the errorr I got when I start the server
up: (I tryed the mono server since I couldn't find an entry for the SVGA card)

>XFree86 Version 1.1 / X Window System
>(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000)
>Configured drivers:
>  VGA2 (monochrome VGA):
>      et4000, et3000, pvga1, gvga, tvga8900, generic
>VGA2: pvga1 (mem: 1024k (using 64k) numclocks: 8)
>VGA2:   clocks: 25 28 19 26 15 16 37 21
>Cannot open mouse: No such file or directory

(This is obviously because the mouse is wrong.  Could only see a "Logitech"
 configuration, no Microsoft in sight)

>Fatal server error:
>failed to initialize core devices
>XIO:  fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) on X server ":0.0"
>      after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
>      The connection was probably broken by a server shutdown or KillClient.

Sorry if this is obvious.  This is the first time I've ever dealt with
X Windows, and I feel a little lost...   but I still like it better than
MS Windows! ;-)

-Rich

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