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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1773 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 14:57:32 EST Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!sdd.hp.com!portal!mykes From: mykes@shell.portal.com (mike myke schwartz) Subject: multiuser, XFree86 questions Message-ID: <C2rJ8I.1Jo@unix.portal.com> Sender: news@unix.portal.com Nntp-Posting-Host: jobe Organization: Portal Communications Company X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8] Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1993 19:53:05 GMT Lines: 54 Yours truly, 386BSD wizard in training, has a few questions about XFree86-1.2. If you've been following this group since the start, you will have seen that I have gone from unable to install BSD (install_notes documentation bugs), keyboard and mouse problems, and the likes. But I am making progress :) To get to my questions: I am using the patchkit kernel on a Dell 486D/50, which has a built-in WD 90C31 SVGA with direct 32-bit access to the chip's memory. XFree86 identifies it as a PVGA1 but does not show any dot clock matching any of the entries in the modeDB.txt file or the supplied sample Xconfig. My monitor is a ViewSonic 7, and I tried making my own Clock entry in the vga256 section of Xconfig to match the dotclocks printed by X386 and the ViewSonic 7 entry in modeDB.txt. I added the modeDB.txt entry in the appropriate place in Xconfig. I get a 1024x768x256 mode to happen, but the picture is VERY unstable, flickers a lot, etc. And I have been tweaking the numbers in the table for a couple of days now. If anyone has a suggestion or working entry, I am all ears (like perot :) 2nd question (and an answer for other beginners here): I have found only one really good FTP site that has lots of 386BSD stuff. There are many sites that have the basic 386BSD distribution and 0.1-ports stuff. But cc.purdue.edu has a lot of really cool 386BSD apps, like xview3 - olwm for X386. Which leads to my question. I have xview3 installed and working. When I bring up the root menu window, it has a "commandTool" menuitem that doesn't do anything. Where can I get commandTool? 3rd question: The system always boots into single user mode for me. It refuses any rlogins from remote systems or telnet from remote systems. This must be a dumb question, but HOW do I get 386BSD into multiuser mode? The /etc/rc file mentions autoreboot and single user/multi user, but I have never seen it work multiuser. And before jumping to a hasty answer, consider that: 1) I have a WD ethernet controller which requires a hard reset (reset button on the computer) or 386BSD patchkit kernel won't recognize it without the reset. 2) there is a patch to fix the wd boot problem, but for some reason, it was not compiled into the patchkit kernel (I wish it was). 3) I haven't gotten into building my own kernel yet. Last question: Is there any way to get my printer to work with the patch kernel? thanks in advance for any help