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From: harry@atlas.socsci.umn.edu (Kuo-Chen Chang)
Subject: X server never up >>> HELP
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Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 21:06:23 GMT
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It's been a very frustrated weekend. I have been using linux for over 4
months. Last night I decided to give 386BSD a shot. I cleaned up 2 partitions
on my Maxtor LXT340. Everything seemed to be fine until I tried to install
XFree86. As what I did within Linux, I tried "startx". But this time
386BSD would not buy it. I received several complaints:
userclientrc=/root/.xinitrc: Command not found
userserverrc=/root/.xserverr: Command not found
...
...
I tried to use "xinit". THis time the window came for 1 second and deminished
with another error message:
XIO: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) on X server "0:0"
after o requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
The connection was probably broken by a server shutdown or KillClient.
Any idea?
I also have some questions about 386BSD:
1. Is there any screen saver available? I don't want to burn my
SVGA monitor, though it's only 14". On Linux, the screen black
out after 2-5 minutes idle.
2. I do love the key buffer provided by Linux. Where I can find
something with the same function?
3. The mtools only allows me to access floppy drives. I wish I
can access my data on DOS partitions. Of course, then I can
exchange data between DOS, Linux and 386BSD.
4. I wrote some programs dynamically allocate memory for huge
matrices, varying from 40x40x10 to 150x150x150. I have no problem
within Linux. But 386BSD won't let allocate memory larger than
3MB (maybe even even less.) I ahve 20MB RAM on board and my Linux
kernel can handle up to 32MB. What's the maximum amount of memory
386BSD can handle?
Thanks!
Harry