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From: sxx4519@ultb.isc.rit.edu (S.X. Xue)
Subject: Starter needs help!
Message-ID: <1992Nov16.082039.8939@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
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Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 08:20:39 GMT
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I recently installed a copy XFree86 on my newly installed 386BSD. I am
experiencing many problems. Hope experts out there would help me out.
Hardware:
40 MHz 386DX
AMI BOIS 7/7/91
No math coprocessor
8 meg ram
200 meg and 40 meg IDE drives
Fahrenheit 1280 vedio card
Mousesystems serial mouse (com1)
OS:
386BSD binary distribution from agate.berkeley.edu
No source distribution, no etc dirstribution
Updated kernel for XFree86
XFree86 bininary distribution from the same ftp host
X server is set to X386mono (trying to start generic VGA mode)
Problems:
Printer driver missing (/dev/lp)
C compiler does not work with floating point numbers
-- all numbers are rounded off to intgers
Mtools does not work,
message-- init: open: No such a file or dirctory
X server will not start,
message-- Fatal I/O error 32. Broken pipe on X server...