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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ames!decwrl!csus.edu!netcomsv!mork!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: X386 for 386BSD Message-ID: <masmpyb.hasty@netcom.com> Date: 2 Aug 92 04:00:56 GMT References: <1992Jul31.164635.3317@lgc.com> <1992Jul31.215500.25218@zip.eecs.umich.edu> Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) Lines: 49 In article <1992Jul31.215500.25218@zip.eecs.umich.edu> dmuntz@dip.eecs.umich.edu (Daniel A Muntz) writes: >In article <1992Jul31.164635.3317@lgc.com> danson@lgc.com (Doug Anson) writes: >>I pulled X386 binaries off of agate for 386BSD. I noticed that the >>X server is *11 MEG* in size -- is this for real? How much swap is > Due to X386 being a new port, Rich compiled X11R5 with -g and -O. >Try stripping it. > >Has anyone gotten the server to work? What are the major and minor numbers >for /dev/vga? I tried the numbers for /dev/console and /dev/null (in case >it didn't really need /dev/vga) and with either, X fails without giving /dev/vga major number is 12 and minor number is 0. >any useful error message. X386 is dying of a bus error (i.e., if I run >X386 w/o xinit or startX, it generates a bus error). > Have you applied the patches to the kernel? For informational purposes: I am running X386-2E 1.0 (the server) in Speedup mode. svga card Diamond SpeedStar (et4000 chipset) 1MB 486/33 MHz 64K cache 8 megabyte of memory >I run X386 under Mach 2.6 on a different partition, so the hardware should >be okay, and I brought over my Xconfig (merged with Xconfig.sample), ~/.x*, etc. >(card: Orchid PD IIs ET4000 1meg) > >Message when /dev/vga exists: > >X386 Version 1.2E 1.0.1 / X Window System >(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000) >XIO: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) on X server "(null)" > after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. > The connection was probably broken by a server shutdown or KillClient. After you have applied the kernel patches and if the problem persists, send me e-mail so I can take care of the problem. Rich and I ported X11R5 and X386 >The clients I've tried work fine. > > -Dan > Amancio Hasty