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From: othman@ntrc25.ntrc.ntu.ac.sg (othman (EEE/Div 4))
Subject: Re: [XFree86]  Help needed badly
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AZ7141633 (az7141633@v9001) wrote:
: >Problems:
: >   Printer driver missing (/dev/lp)

Need to compile lpt.c . I recommend wolf's lpt.c which does not use interrupt.

: >   C compiler does not work with floating point numbers
: >       -- all numbers are rounded off to intgers

I do not have this problem.

: >   Mtools does not work,

recompile a new one. get it from etcdist

: >       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...

get a generic Xconfig like my Xconfig.idiot.
try X386 >& error
and read error to find out the error messages.

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