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From: pcc@s1.gov (Philip C. Cox)
Subject: Opinion question? Possibly a FAQ?
Keywords: linux, 386bsd
Organization: llnl
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 07:02:44 GMT

I am new to Intel-UNIX systems, I currently administer a network with
Sun's, HP's, SGI's, and Mips (mostly Suns though, 10:1) so I am knowledgable
with BSD & a little SYS V unix. I am upgrading my home machine and have 
decided to run unix on a partition, and was wondering what (if any ) the 
significant differences are between linux & 386bsd. If there are diffs, 
are there specific users that favor a certain system. I know this is 
subjective, but all opinions will be gladly accepted.


Thanks for the Info,

Phil
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
From: kilroy@ms.uky.edu (Paul S. Kilroy)
Subject: [LONGSHOT] Xconfig for SAMTRON monitor &sync quest.
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 07:02:12 GMT
Organization: Big, Dangerous Ideas, Inc.

Hi all,

	This is a longshot, but does anyone have an Xconfig
    for a samtron monitor I cant get the timings right in
    1024x756 mode, There isnt much of a model number on it
    but maybe we can find out through mail if yours is similar
    enough to mine..
	Or maybe someone can help me out
	When i go into svga mode, i get about 3 inches border
    on the top and bottom of thee screen. alse in all modes
    there is almost an inch border. 

I have tried fooling with the modogen package and the sync
 timings(i assume that is the problem) but the numbers dont work 
out right, my horizontal sync freq(or something like that) is
way too low..

any help is appreciated..

paul
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
From: dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Dawes)
Subject: Re: AltGr bindings in clients (esp. xterm)
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 10:45:16 GMT

In article <EWERLID.93Jan4033306@ida.docs.uu.se> ewerlid@ida.docs.uu.se (Ove Ewerlid) writes:
>
>I had this problem too with XFree86-1.1 (under linux)!
>
>After some random tweaking I found out that I needed to add
>these lines to the beginning of my Xmodmap file:
>
>	clear mod1
>	add mod1 = Meta_L Meta_R
>
>This adds both Alt and AltGr to the mod1.

This is different from what the original poster requires.  The original
poster wanted to be able to access the 3rd keysym mapped to a key.
To do this, Mode_switch is required.  My earlier followup showed how to
make the AltGr key work in that way.

The default mapping of the Alt keys for XFree86-1.1 is:

Left Alt           ->  Alt_L   Meta_L
Right Alt / AltGr  ->  Alt_R   Meta_R

With mod1 set to   Alt_L, Alt_R

This mapping should make both alt keys work as Meta keys (to get 8-bit
characters in an xterm).  It certainly works for me.

>In my case the command `xmodmap' indicated that these
>keys already was in the mod1 map.
>(I.e. prior to loading anything with `xmodmap file' ?!?!)

Are you sure you found this to be the case with XFree86-1.1 and not the
1.0Ya version -- an alpha version that somehow got into one or more
SLS releases?

David
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.os.linux
From: bmyers@shyguy.lonestar.org (bob myers)
Subject: Xconfig modes for interlace monitor
Organization: 3-B Technology
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 02:53:50 GMT

I'm trying to find a way to determine the proper mode(s) for my Laser 386sx
monitor/STB Ergo Powergraph 1mb card pairing.  (I decided to get the
ET4000-based card, instead of trying to use the Oak Tech. board that's 
shipped with the unix).

It looks like the video.tutorial document that's included with Linux's 
X distribution might give me some insight, but I believe that most of the
discussion deals with a non-interlaced scenerio (I may be wrong on this).

Any help would gladly be appreciated.  thanks...

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
From: andrewc@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !)
Subject: Re: 386bsd + Xfree86 1.2:Window managers wanted
Keywords: Xfree 386BSD Window Manager
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 08:37:31 GMT

sn@plato.chemietechnik.uni-dortmund.de (sn) writes:

>Hi folks,

>I'm running 386BSD-0.1 at home with Xfree86 1.2 and I'm currently
>using twm as the window manager. What other (free) window managers
>are available, where can I get them and what are their features?

Well, there's vtwm and tvtwm (which are virtual version of twm, as
far as I know)

olvwm (very nice - Open Look Virtual wm)

and
gwm (a programmable one, with a Motif emulator)

the sources should all be at export.lcs.mit.edu in the contrib dir.
(certainly gwm is, anyway)

They work on Linux, so I guess 386BSD should be ok as well.

Happy Hunting !

Cos !
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From: Conrad_Nobili@Harvard.EDU (Conrad C. Nobili)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
Subject: Re: Problem: ps/2 mouse
Date: 12 Jan 93 05:23:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: nobili.Conrad_Nobili-120193000738
Followup-To: comp.windows.x.i386unix
Organization: Harvard University Office for Information Technology

(Sorry, this duplicates <Conrad_Nobili-110193220012@nobili.harvard.edu> in
comp.os.linux, which you can now mark as read if you follow that group.... 
I only use linux so I don't know if this program is more widely useful....)

In article <1993Jan11.135918.14015@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>,
dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat) wrote:

> The version of XFree86 you have doesn't support the PS/2 mouse.  XFree86
> 1.2 (currently planned for release during the last week of January or
> first week of February) adds support for the PS/2 mouse.

The short little program 'mconv' (sometimes seen as 'ps2memul' on
archives?) by Johan Myreen is all you need to make lesser versions of
XFree86 work with a PS/2 mouse.  You need to make the appropriate device. 
All this is in the FAQs.

Conrad C. Nobili  N1LPM  Conrad_Nobili@Harvard.EDU  Harvard University OIT
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
From: rich@Rice.edu (& Murphey)
Subject: Re: 386BSD Xconfig set up
Reply-To: Rich@rice.edu
Organization: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice
	University
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 05:31:15 GMT

>>>>> In article <1993Jan8.023416.505@ryn.mro4.dec.com>, ashley@gidday.enet.dec.com (STEPHEN ASHLEY) writes:
SA> 	Hi there Net,

SA> 	    I am having some difficulty configuring the Xconfig
SA> file for the xwindows server on my 386BSD installation. I am 
SA> new to unix from a VMS background but Xwindows is Xwindows I
SA> guess.
SA> My system is 486SX25 20M ram 200M hard drive, TVGA8900C video
SA> controller with 1mvram. Tystar SVGA monitor. Xfree86 installed
SA> fine I think.I tried the default Xconfig and I get the following
SA> error message after the screen blanks and tries to sync.
SA> :-
SA> XFree86 Version 1.1/ X Window System
SA> (protocol Version 11,revision0, vendor release 5000)
SA> Configured drivers:
SA> VGA256 (256 COLOUR svga):
SA> ET4000,ET3000, PVGA1, GVGA, ATI, TVGA8900
SA> X10: fatal 10 error 32 (Broken Pipe) on X server ":0.0
SA> fter 0 requests (0 known processed) with o events remaining.
SA> The connection was probably broken by a server shutdown or 
SA> KillClient.

SA> Does this mean my Xconfig incorrect or is the installation not
SA> installed correctly.I've tried different settings in Xconfig
SA> but with slightly different display results but always the 
SA> same server failure code. So I guess what I really want to know is
SA> this error normal for a faulty config file?  

SA> 	Steve Ashley
SA> 	Alice Springs Outback Australia.
SA> email replies if you wish

Since this is a FAQ, let me post a sort suggestion:

  First, redirect the error messages to a file:
  	xinit >& xinit.out
  because otherwise those messages which are printed while the console
  is in graphics mode are lost.  You get more information this way.
  
  Then check the output and then check your Xconfig.  See
  /usr/X386/lib/X11/etc/README.386bsd, the X386 man page and
  /usr/X386/lib/X11/Xconfig.sample for a description of the Xconfig.

Rich
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
From: jraudaba@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Jill A Raudabaugh)
Subject: x on notebook?
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 00:55:29 GMT

Hello.
Is any one out there running X on a notebook computer with 256 colors at
640x480? I'm looking for such a beast. I'd prefer an active matrix laptop.
It's been difficult to find out what kind of video chipsets are in these
laptops.  Any information or recommendations?

It seems that some of the laptops can only support 16 colors at the 640x480 
resolution.  As I understand it, I need a 256 color mode to use X386.

Thanks,
Jill
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
From: alaruik@lesti.hut.fi (Pekka T Alaruikka)
Subject: telnet dies with X and xdm won't work at all
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Distribution: comp
Date: 12 Jan 93 18:12:18


	When I'm trying to use telnet from X. My connection dies within 30 
	seconds. This won't happen when I'm not using X !!!

	Xdm won't even start and it hooks hole machine.

	Has anyone succeeded to get these two things to work or has anyone else
	got this kind problems.

	My linux-station
	386DX 16mHz
	387
	Kernel 0.99.2
	wd8003 -ethernet card
	Xfree86 1.1
	X386mono server
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
From: doni@netcom.com (Donald R. Ingenito)
Subject: [Q] Linux Xs3 and Actix GE32 Config problem
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 02:31:12 GMT

		I'm having some trouble getting the Linux Xs3 server 0.2b to
work with a new Actix GE32. Here is the deal. The timings in the
Xconfig are solid. I worked em out for my old graphics card and the
standard Linux X-server and I'm using the same clock speed with the
new card. I also set my Virtual to 1024x768. The screen comes up
centered and crisp, but it comes up crisply corrupted :-(. The left
side of the screen is fine but windows on the left create artifacts on
the right side of the screen. Or put another way, about midway across
my screen the screen begins to repeat sleces of itself. I think you've
probably seen something similar before.

		I'm pretty sure it's not a Horiz or vert timing problem. The
picture is fine and sharply delineated at it's edges. I thought at
first that it was the cache problem that arises when you have a
virtual screen larger than 1024x768, but you can only write 1024x768
in your Xconfig so many times; and I wrote it all over :-). Actually I
still think that's what the problem is, but I don't know how to solve
it.

		If someone knows what's up or if you have a working Xconfig
for an Actix GE32, please mail it to me. Iv'e tried the one that came 
with the server, and that's also where I got the GE32 clocks. Oh,
incidentally (or maybe not) my card has 2048k on it. I tried it with 
only 1024 tho and still no luck. Don't worry about the monitor timings
in the Xconfig. I'm getting pretty expert at figuring that part out.
Thanks for the help. Sorry if it's ITFM.


Donald R. Ingenito
From: mengel@fnsg01.fnal.gov (Marc Mengel)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
Subject: X386 on Tandy 48000
Date: 12 Jan 93 07:20:21 GMT
Organization: FERMILAB, Batavia, IL
Reply-To: <mengel@dcdmwm.fnal.gov>
NNTP-Posting-Host: fnsg01.fnal.gov
Keywords: lcd laptop tandy X386

I have been trying to get X386 to run on my new Tandy notebuook PC
with very limited success.  X386 will start, clear the video display
(slightly wrong, but assorted parameters are probably wrong)  and then 
restores the display and  exits silently.  The output is identical
to running the command  with the -showconfig flag; the command does
exit with an exit coe of 1.

Is tehr some handy debug flag I can turn on to see what might be wrong?

The system appears to have a Cirrus  GL-GD6410-320C-A chip, and
a TwinHead 6460B chip next to it right up against the external VGA plug.

Has anyone any idea what if any chipset this Cirrus monstrosity
(it's a HUGE chip) might be emulating, or have of the TwinHead?!?
From: glenn@cs.utexas.edu (Glenn G. Lai)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
Subject: Re: lines in X11
Date: 11 Jan 1993 10:52:44 -0600
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: paducah.cs.utexas.edu

In article <1993Jan11.110316.28723@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de*, frankenb@gelion.informatik.uni-bonn.de (Michael Frankenberg) writes:
* 
* Hello,
* 
* I have a problem with X11 and my Linux-PC:
* 
* After moving a window, I have lines on the left side of the window at its
* old position. But this depends on the position of the window and happens only
* at each second vertical column.
* 
* I have Linux and a 512-KB ET4000 (Escom).

This happens on a Volante AT1000 (ET4000 + TMS34020), too.  Try disabling
SpeedUp in Xconfig (nospeedup) or use the mono server.


Glenn
glenn@cs.utexas.edu
From: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
Subject: Where is .emacs?
Date: 8 Jan 93 10:03:00 GMT
Reply-To: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
Organization: Datamax/Satalink Connection * Ivyland, PA (215) 443-9434

I have a small problem that I'm attempting to track down, specifically
when running X, my .emacs file is no longer recognized when running
emacs under X.  This is obviously possible, and I see nothing about
this in the FAQ, what is the solution? :-)

Internet: john.will@satalink.com
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
From: jcachat@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (John J Cachat)
Subject: Help w/Local bus S3
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 20:13:02 GMT

  I am trying to get X up and running on my 486-33 Local bus with
  an Orchid Fahrenheit VLB card (local bus S3), and a CTX multiscan
  monitor.  I am running Linux from the SLS series (believe kernel is
  99).  I can get X to come up by using either the mono server or
  the S3 server, but neither will recognize my video ram or clock
  speeds other than 25 and 28.  The servers insist that I only have
  16k video ram.
  
  When the display comes up using the S3 server, parts of the images are
  duplicated (in part) several times on the right side of the screen.
  Also, some of the fonts come out as garbage.  This sounds like a
  symptom of the misread video ram...

  I could live with the Mono server, except for the clock situation.
  Very bad flicker.  I have tried setting the clock speeds using the
  'Clocks' command in the Xconfig (also tried 'Videoram 1024' for that
  matter), but it didn't help.

  I don't think these problems have anything to do with my clock settings.
  I've read ALL the information I could find about figuring them out and
  used the modegen spreedsheet.  Has anyone had any experience setting
  up with this hardware or had similar problems?  I'm running out of
  hair to pull, any help is GREATLY appreciated!

  John
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
From: ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson)
Subject: X8514 with ATI Ultra and NEC 4FG: SOLUTION
Organization: State University of New York -- Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 01:44:29 GMT

X8514 wouldn't work with my ATI Ultra and NEC 4FG.  It said something
about the display not being an 8514.  I received several responses, and
managed to get it working today.  It seems that the video card was not
set up properly.  Using ATI's INSTALL.EXE program under DOS, I set it up 
for the proper monitor and everything works fine.

I hope this helps the other people that were having this problem.

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
From: schase@sergei.MITRE.org (Steven Chase)
Subject: Need help getting X to run with my Graphics Card and Monitor
Organization: MITRE Corp. McLean Va.
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 17:31:07 GMT


I have a Packard Bell monitor that supports 800x600 resolution and a
Tseng ET4000 TrueColor 72Hz graphics card.  I'm not sure what the 
clock speeds are for the graphics card, but I've tried almost
everything.  Does anyone know if I can run X at 800x600 using
this graphics card or even if this graphics card is supported?
I have tried almost all of the examples given in the modesDB file
and none of them work.

Also, does anyone know where I can get the clocks.exe program to 
tell me what the clock speeds are on my graphics card?

Your help is appreciated.
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
From: billc@pegasus.ATT.COM (Bill Carpenter)
Subject: non-stop X386
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Distribution: comp
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 00:22:27 GMT

I recently converted to XFree86 from my home-cooked X11r5.  When I run
my old stuff, I can shut the server down in the usual ways (ie, my
last client in ~/.xinitrc ends, xinit kills the server).

When I run the server from XFree86, I can't get rid of the server
except with the CTL-ALT-BS sequence.  When that last client dies, the
server looks like it's shutting down, but a couple of seconds later it
seems to reinitialize itself and give me the gray background and
default mouse cursor.  No clients appear.  I've waited 5-10 minutes to
see if something just had to time out, but no change.  It dies quickly
when I punch CTL-ALT-BS.  (I tried NoTrapSignals, but didn't notice
any change.)

I'm on a 386 running AT&T UNIX SVR4.0.2.1a with an ET4000 video card.
My XFree86 stuff was picked up recently from bradley.edu.

Any clues?
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.os.linux
From: hartnegg@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Klaus Hartnegg)
Subject: Re: Xconfig modes for interlace monitor
Organization: Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Freiburg, Deutschland
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 93 18:39:34 GMT

bmyers@shyguy.lonestar.org (bob myers) writes:

>It looks like the video.tutorial document that's included with Linux's 
>X distribution might give me some insight, but I believe that most of the
>discussion deals with a non-interlaced scenerio (I may be wrong on this).

Look for other docs. There are more than just the video tutorial.
One of the other ones is better. It's in a different directory,
sorry I forgot in which one. There was rumor that there is even
a spreadsheed somewhere to calculate the timing parameters.
Unfortunately I didn't see this mentioned in the docs (that I read).

The difference between interlaced and non interlaced is:
1. with interlaced calculate with twice the horizontal frequency
   (picture frequency). Make sure that this is not too high for your monitor!
2. the last two of the eight timing parameters have to be ODD numbers.
   (just increase them by one if they are not).

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
From: frankenb@gelion.informatik.uni-bonn.de (Michael Frankenberg)
Subject: lines in X11
Reply-To: frankenb@gelion.informatik.uni-bonn.de (Michael Frankenberg)
Organization: Praktische Informatik III
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 11:03:16 GMT


Hello,

I have a problem with X11 and my Linux-PC:

After moving a window, I have lines on the left side of the window at its
old position. But this depends on the position of the window and happens only
at each second vertical column.

I have Linux and a 512-KB ET4000 (Escom).


Thanks


Michael


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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
From: johnsonm@lars.StOlaf.edu (Michael K. Johnson)
Subject: Re: xterm won't display (linux)
Reply-To: johnsonm@stolaf.edu
Organization: Tea Conspiracy
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:39:33 GMT


Well, now that i bothered everyone, here's the problem:

Almost a year after I created my ptyp's and ttyp's, I have finally
noticed that I had them swapped.  It used to work fine that way, but
certainly applications were working worse and worse, and it
corresponded to changes in the pty code under linux.  I kept
suspecting that I had problems with them, but I kept checking the
permissions, and they were right, and I knew that the minor number
series started with 128 and 192, and that seemed right, so I never
noticed that I had them BACKWARDS...

Duh..... <bang> <bang> <crunch>  "Micheal, stop hitting your head
against the wall.  You're damaging it!  ...  No, the wall!  Your head
is hard enough..." <grin>

Anyway, thanks to Muhammad M. Saggaf for goading me to check my pty's
*one more time*

michaelkjohnson
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