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From: larry@rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: FAQ questions
Date: 15 Aug 1995 14:31:57 -0000
Organization: Larry's BSD Box
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Message-ID: <40qb4t$3jr@trauma.rn.com>
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I have a couple of questions --


first, I installed 2.0.5 off the CD I received this last week.  I know
that 2.1.0 is available now, but I'm not sure how to update my machine -
both the kernel with the new sources and the updates to the base operating
system.  I see mention of sup, but no specifics or sample control files

the man page for sup mentions running it once a day from cron, but again
I see no samples.

the next question is about X.  I'm running it with a Mach64 with 2 megs
of RAM.  it works fine - however, I'm not able to view with more than
64 colors.  My video board supports more than this.

next, about the console driver - I turned off the SCO "like" console
which was enabled as the default - and enabled the vt220 console driver
but the arrow keys and backspace keys are not working.  it there any
reason that I should use the vt220 console driver verses the vt220?


thanks in advance -- larry

-- 
larry snyder
larry@rn.com