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From: jin@gracie.lbl.gov (Jin Guojun[ITG])
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help on XFree86 3.1.1 under FreeBSD 2.0
Date: 12 May 1995 00:58:02 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
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In article <3ori6v$n6r@gryphon.phoenix.net>,
Paul Flores <pflores@phoenix.phoenix.net> wrote:
>Jin Guojun[ITG] (jin@gracie.lbl.gov) wrote:
>: I installed FreeBSD 2.0-950322-SNAP on Pentinum-100 (PN-2000 mother board +
>: Award BIOS). There sre two problems:
>
>: (1)	xinit complains:
>: ld.so:	xinit:	libgcc.so.261.0: Undefined error:	0
>
>: There is no libgcc.so.* under /usr/lib. How can I get it installed?
>
>libgcc.so.261.0 is on ftp.freebsd.org in the /FreeBSD/2.0-950322-SNAP
>
>dir
>
>
>
>Paul

Thanks for your information. The FreeBSD has a very nice installation
interface. However, the Linux works better even though its installation
is little harder and it has some non-standard network interface.

If FreeBSD requires libgcc.so.261.0 for its installation, then libgcc.so.261.0
should be in the installation package. Add libgcc.so.261.0 later on, causes
X environment is not set up. I saw a message about a week ago, it complains
that the mouse device is not configured. I had the same problem, but I do not
know if this is caused by XF86 configuration failed due to miss libgcc.so.261.0.
or just something is wrong in FreeBSD. At startx, I got this message:

MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernal support
PEXEntensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file  Roman_M
Fatal server error:
Cannot open mouse (Device not configured)

X connection to :).0 broken (...)


I am evaluating the different UNIX OS for PC. I had Linux and BSDi installed
on our PCs, And I saw some one post message in BDSi group and says the FreeBSD
is better then BSDi, so I tried to install it. First of all, I like its
interface of installing, but I cannot get every thing to work in a week.
If some one would give me quick hack on solving this problem, it will be
appreciated.

FreeBSD should make itself easy to configure and work reliable.  I like BSD
since it is much more professional than Linux.  However, this time, I did
hang here and cannot figure out what I can do by myself. I am very new to
FreeBSD. If I did some thing worng on installation, I will stand corrected.

Thanks for advice,

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