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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: XFree86/NetBSD 0.9/S3 problems. Message-ID: <hastyCDquEp.484@netcom.com> Keywords: X, NetBSD, S3 Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <hastyCDq6oC.591@netcom.com> <27ofuf$f9b@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <michaelv.748672755@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1993 07:06:24 GMT Lines: 38 In article <michaelv.748672755@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) writes: >In <27ofuf$f9b@pdq.coe.montana.edu> osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) writes: > >>In article <hastyCDq6oC.591@netcom.com>, >>Amancio Hasty Jr <hasty@netcom.com> wrote: >>>In article <E1HHB7WM@math.fu-berlin.de> pipes@knock1.mgh.harvard.edu (Robert A. Wheeler) writes: > >>>>I'm running a DECpc 433dxLP, which is a 33mhz 486, 16mb ram, using >>>>NetBSD 0.9, and XFree86 1.3. The X system works well in monochrome, > >>To be blunt, you would be best to wait until XFree86 2.0 is out, the S3 >>server in there should work fine. > >>But I think you're stuck until Xfree86-2.0 is released, or somebody fixes >>XS3 to run. I was going to mess with it, but decided to bail back to >>FreeBSD. > >Which brings up the question, when will XFree86-2.0 be out? > Oh, I will probably get XS3 to work soon with NetBSD-0.9 just not too happy with the OS. The last week or two I have been pre-occupied with a memory leak which I traced to the mit code far more important than porting XS3 to NetBSD-0.9 (at least that is my priority). At any rate, the X app, Xboing, which was giving me a headache is running very well now and with sound from my sound blaster pro card. Cheers, Amancio -- This message brought to you by the letters X and S and the number 3 Amancio Hasty | Home: (415) 495-3046 | ftp-site depository of all my work: e-mail hasty@netcom.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/incoming