From: martin@cs.curtin.edu.au (Martin Dougiamas)
Subject: Re: XFree86 on ISC 2.0.2 (summary: yes)
Keywords: Any success stories?
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 09:43:29 GMT

I don't think the last time I posted this worked... so here it is again:

Earlier in this newsgroup, I asked:

>Has anyone successfully installed XFree86 on a 386 running ISC 386ix 2.0.2?
>I'd like to know whether it's worth me upgrading to a later version
>of 386ix just to get XWindows happening on this machine.

In summary, yes, it's is possible to run XFree86 under this version.

I received responses from the following people:
  danield@charlie.cs.unlv.edu
  Tim Whitlock <tlw@mph.sm.ucl.ac.uk>
  fritzz@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu (Fritz Zaucker)
  jtsilla@damon.ccs.northeastern.edu (James Tsillas)
  jdpierc@netcom.com (Jerry D. Pierce)

Thanks for the information you sent... It has made up to mind to go ahead
and download the binaries (at 2400 baud over a paid line this is not a
lightweight decision!) as soon as I sort out some video cards.

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From: danield@charlie.cs.unlv.edu

Funny you should ask.  After spending gawd awful amounts of time downloading
it and then playing with it for most of a day, I installed the binaries for 
XFree86-1.1 that are archived on blancmange.ma.utexas.edu.

It took some playing to get it to work.  I had to remove, and then re-install
the tcp/ip package to get it to work. I suspect I had a problem with it before
that I just never noticed.  

It seems to work fine now, but now I think I need to buy a new Monitor...
X-windows at 600x400 loses something. :)

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From: Tim Whitlock <tlw@mph.sm.ucl.ac.uk>

I have xfree86 running without any obvious problems on ISC 2.0.2.  As I 
recalled I just installed the binaries and off I went with no special 
configuration except the screen resolutions for my VGA card. 

The only problem I do have is in using ghostview with ghostscript 2.5.2
which still breaks each time gs252 is invoked by ghostview....but this
I assume is to do with compilation of the programs and TCPIP etc rather
than xfree86 since it also occurred with these latest versions when
running X386.

Summary....yes it is possible no obvious problems

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From: fritzz@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu (Fritz Zaucker)

I installed the binaries and got the server running. I didn't do any
extensive work with it yet and the PEX stuff might have hung the
machine, but I am not sure. You should give it a try, with the
binaries (compiled under ISC 3.2.something I believe) it's no big
deal.

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From: jtsilla@damon.ccs.northeastern.edu (James Tsillas)

You can find out by grabbing the binary distribution from
blancmange.ma.utexas.edu. SO far we've tested on ISC 2.2 and 3.0 but I
would like to get it tested on 2.0 as well.

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From: jdpierc@netcom.com (Jerry D. Pierce)

I'm running XFree86 on ISC 3.0, if it's any help.  You MUST have
the TCP/IP package installed for it to run, however.  And 4 megs
is a bare minimum, more along the lines of 8-12 is much better.
(And save about 80K blocks of disk space for JUST the binaries)

You can upgrade your 2.0.2 to 3.0 for around $300.00 not including
manuals...  Just contact SunSoft directly.  (Make sure you ask for
version 3.01)

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Again, thanks to those who replied.

Martin Dougiamas
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