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- From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
- Subject: Re: SCSI Tape and X11R5 questions
- Message-ID: <d0znj7q.hasty@netcom.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Sep 92 02:27:54 GMT
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <47606@shamash.cdc.com>
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- In article <47606@shamash.cdc.com> pbd@runyon.cim.cdc.com (Paul Dokas) writes:
- >I have two rather basic 8-) questions about 386BSD 0.1:
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- > 1) I want to build X11 preferably R5 for my 386. I've increased
- > the swap to 24MB, applied as many patches as I could find and
- > now I'm stuck. I know that I have to get XFree86 (probably from
- > agate), but do I also need the MIT X11R5 distribution? My
- You need to get mit-1, mit-2 and maybe mit-3 if you are
- good at building X you may get by without mit-3.
- Also, you will need patch levels 1 to 16.
- Finally, the instructions and patches on how to build
- X11R5 are in the README in agate.berkeley.edu:/pub/incoming/X386
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- There is also under the same directory in agate a patch
- kit for the kernel.
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- > question is basically: what source do I need to ftp to build
- > X11R5 on my 386-40 (TVGA 512K, God I hope that there's a driver
- > for this card!)
- could you please look in the card and send me the svga
- chip name/model. A good chipset that works with Xfree86 is et4000
- you can get clones for about $125 now days. Also, the
- next upcoming release of Xfree86 has support for Trident
- which are dirt cheap around $85.
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- >
- >Thanks for the help!
- >
- >Paul Dokas
- >pbd@runyon.cim.cdc.com
- >
- >BTW many thanks to Terry Lambert for the patchkit! I applied all 19
- > patches to my system and rebuilt it in less than 30 minutes.
- > When are the rest of the ~30 patches coming out?
- >--
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- Amancio Hasty
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