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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!harry
From: harry@atlas.socsci.umn.edu (Kuo-Chen Chang)
Subject: X server never up >>>  HELP
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Organization: University of Minnesota
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