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Subject: Re: [386BSD] XFree86 Questions: Help!
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Date: 10 Jan 93 04:03:39 GMT
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>>>>> In article <1iq7ltINN15i@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, david@maxwell.ucsc.edu (David Darknell) writes:
David> NNTP-Posting-Host: maxwell.ucsc.edu

David> Congratulations to all of you wonderful programmers for this treat!
David> Wow!  I have been trying to install 386BSD on my 486/33 8M/535M HD
David> and have some problems, primarily they are:

David> 1.  I can't find anywhere the procedure for installing XFree86 with
David> 	a Logitech bus mouse (irq5).  I did manage to get XFree86 to
David> 	recognize a serial mouse.  

We currently have three drivers available by anonymous ftp:

A port of Erik Forsberg's bus mouse driver for 386bsd was posted to
comp.unix.bsd in Oct 91 by Sandi Donno sandi@uctcs.cs.uct.ac.za.
It's available by anon ftp from kappa.rice.edu (128.42.4.7) in
pub/ms-busmouse.tar.Z.

A beta release of a logitech Bus Mouse driver written by Fred
Cawthorne <fcawth@delphi.umd.edu> which supports XFree86 under
386bsd. It's on kappa.rice.edu in pub/logitech-busmouse-0.2.shar.Z.

Rick Macklem <rick@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca> wrote a driver for the
Logitech and ATI Inport Bus mice for use with 386bsd.  There are
patches to this driver by Eugene Stark <stark@sbcs.sunysb.edu> to
support the Microsoft bus mouse.  It's on kappa.rice.edu in
pub/Macklem-busmouse.uu.

386bsd kernel binaries with bus mouse drivers are not available, but
if someone were willing to help us test and support them it could be
done.  We can't without the hardware.

David> 2.  Whenever I invoke xinit with the Logitech settings (in Xconfig)
David> 	Logitech	"/dev/com1:
David> 	etc..
David> 	My screen is shifted to graphics mode, and is never restored when
David> 	X dies.  I have to sync;shutdown to restore my screen.  when I
David> 	comment out the Logitech device driver, the screen is not corrupted.
David> 	Why?

If you kill the server or it dies, it doesn't restore the screen.
It should restore the screen when the server is allowed to shut down
gracefully.

David> 3. I now have the message, when I invoke xinit:
David> 	...
David> 	VGA256: SpeedUp mode selected (Flags=0x3f)

David> 	Fatal Server error:
David> 	could not open default font 'fixed'

Incorrect font istallation can cause this error message and the most
common mistake is uncompressing /usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc/*.
This causes the server to abort when it cannot open compressed font
files listed in /usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.dir.  The safest
way to fix it is to unpack core-fonts-1.1.tar.Z again.  But you can
also compress them if you uncompressed them, or rerun mkfontdir in
order to fix the fonts.dir file.  Rich

David> 	XIO:  fatal IO error 32 (...

David> 	I have two font directories, 75dpi, and misc which were in the 
David> 	orig distribution.  Neither has any font named, 'default'.  What
David> 	am I missing here?



David> thanks!

David> David