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- From: joachim@ECE.Concordia.CA (Joachim Thiemann)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
- Subject: NetBSD 1.1 headaches
- Date: 19 Feb 1996 00:05:35 GMT
- Organization: ECE - Concordia University
- Message-ID: <4g8esf$959@newsflash.concordia.ca>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: rimmer.ece.concordia.ca
- NNTP-Posting-User: joachim
- Cc:
-
- Hello all,
-
- I have a few problems, (well, two, to be exact) I was hoping someone
- could help me with...
-
- First the worse and stranger one. After I successfully installed 1.1
- thanks to a kernel provided to me by Jukka Marin, I went on to compile
- my own, to make it leaner. My problem has always been one of flaky
- startup - I'd end up with a blank screen. The problem was fixed when I
- commented out all the other graphics options from my config file (such
- as GRF_PAL, GRF_A2024, retina-stuff, etc...), so it seems that my
- machine has problems with the autoconfig. Anyways. Jukka's kernel
- doesn't boot every time, but within reasonable amounts of trying,
- reboting, trying, rebooting, trying, rebooting... (in contrast to
- GENERIC, which simply refuses to give me an ite despite hundred of
- ties...)
-
- But back to my REAL problem: Whenever I start Minicom (next to ls,
- probably the most-used program I have... :) it does WEIRD things. It
- is as if the the console still gives cooked input to minicom; eg if I
- want to quit, I press Amiga(Meta)-Q and all I get is a funny
- character on the screen. I press return, and the "Quit without reset?"
- message pops on and dissapears. (BTW the modem light is constantly on,
- and stuff is being echoed where it shouldn't)
-
- How do I know it's not just a set-up problem on my end? Well, Jukka's
- kernel, which being 1.1 as well, works just fine! Minicom runs without
- a hitch... Was there a patch I'm not aware of? (I did apply patch001)
-
- BTW, now I'm using cu to dial out... that works...
-
- Second question... X is not behaving (what's new, you ask,
- sarcastically :) I didn't uprade all the binaries to 1.1 yet, but did
- upgrade Xdaniver and fvwm. Now, when I start X, it simply ignores the
- keyboard and mouse... I have to kill the prooceses in order to bring
- it back to console... (using a term on the serial port)
-
- Any help I can get on both these problems is greatly appreciated...
-
- Last thing - not a problem, just a suggestion...
- Given the extraordinary cost of Amiga ethernet cards, is anyone
- currently working on trying to make one of those parallel-port
- ethernet adapters for portable PC's work under NetBSD? (Who knows
- maybe someone in the i386 port is...)
-
- It seems to me that it would provide a cost effective solution to
- those of us that seem unable to locate an Ethernet card.
-
- And yes, I would be willing to work on it, given I could get my hands on
- some docs...
-
- Thanks,
- Joe.
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- Joachim Thiemann joachim@ece.concordia.ca still in Computer Engineering
- http://www.ece.concordia.ca/~joachim/addr.html
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