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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!psinntp!psinntp!isc-newsserver!sxx4519 From: sxx4519@ultb.isc.rit.edu (S.X. Xue) Subject: Starter needs help! Message-ID: <1992Nov16.082039.8939@ultb.isc.rit.edu> Originator: sxx4519@ultb Sender: news@ultb.isc.rit.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: ultb-gw.isc.rit.edu Reply-To: sxx4519@ultb.rit.edu () Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 08:20:39 GMT Lines: 30 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...