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- From: David Kerrivan <thoth@bnr.ca>
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- Subject: Suggestions on X for A3000 with 2 chip, 4 Fast
- Date: 7 Feb 1996 21:22:02 GMT
- Organization: Bell-Northern Research
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- Ok, perhaps this isn't the smartest way to run, but I like using
- X.
-
- I have:
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- A3000/16 (68030 + 68881 + MMU)
- 2 Mb chip
- 4 Mb Fast
- 1950 Monitor
- 52 Mb Quantum SCSI-2 (Ados 2.1 partitions)
- 200 Mb Rodime SCSI-1 (/ and swap)
- 135 Mb Miniscribe ESDI on EMULEX ESDI-SCSI (Sun 3/60 Shoebox) (acts as scratch
- to slow for much real work.)
- CDROM Toshiba (forget model number) single speed, not installed at the moment
- system is being hacked together slowly)
-
- I have due to hardware and space constraints, set up / and /usr on the rodime
- as just one filesystem, the swap space is the second partition. (my HDtoolbox
- is unable to create more than one partion - I've not been able to track the
- answer to this prob down yet.)
-
-
- The real question:
-
- I setup the system over the weekend, and tried to get X installed. I am
- running the system with X11R6, and fvwm (seems to get rave reviews
- on function and size.) and XdanvierBig installed. ( I presume I did this
- correctly )
-
- The system takes about 10 minutes to get up and open a single xterm.
- I have the swap partition set to be 3 * total ram + a little for good
- measure= 20 Mb.
-
- Besides the answer "buy more ram" which is not fiscally possible right now,
- is there a way to stream line this setup so that I can get at least
- 2 xterms running smoothly? ( I don't really like csh job control - I forget
- what I'm doing.)
-
- I still have not gotten into things deep enough to recompile my kernel.
-
- Eagerly awaiting a helpful answer, or at least a glimmer of hope...
-
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- David Kerrivan
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