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- From: harry@atlas.socsci.umn.edu (Kuo-Chen Chang)
- Subject: X server never up >>> HELP
- Message-ID: <harry.721170383@puff.socsci.umn.edu>
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- Organization: University of Minnesota
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 21:06:23 GMT
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- It's been a very frustrated weekend. I have been using linux for over 4
- months. Last night I decided to give 386BSD a shot. I cleaned up 2 partitions
- on my Maxtor LXT340. Everything seemed to be fine until I tried to install
- XFree86. As what I did within Linux, I tried "startx". But this time
- 386BSD would not buy it. I received several complaints:
-
- userclientrc=/root/.xinitrc: Command not found
- userserverrc=/root/.xserverr: Command not found
- ..
- ..
-
- I tried to use "xinit". THis time the window came for 1 second and deminished
- with another error message:
-
- XIO: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) on X server "0:0"
- after o requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
- The connection was probably broken by a server shutdown or KillClient.
-
- Any idea?
-
- I also have some questions about 386BSD:
- 1. Is there any screen saver available? I don't want to burn my
- SVGA monitor, though it's only 14". On Linux, the screen black
- out after 2-5 minutes idle.
- 2. I do love the key buffer provided by Linux. Where I can find
- something with the same function?
- 3. The mtools only allows me to access floppy drives. I wish I
- can access my data on DOS partitions. Of course, then I can
- exchange data between DOS, Linux and 386BSD.
- 4. I wrote some programs dynamically allocate memory for huge
- matrices, varying from 40x40x10 to 150x150x150. I have no problem
- within Linux. But 386BSD won't let allocate memory larger than
- 3MB (maybe even even less.) I ahve 20MB RAM on board and my Linux
- kernel can handle up to 32MB. What's the maximum amount of memory
- 386BSD can handle?
-
- Thanks!
-
- Harry
-
-