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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!cs.umd.edu!not-for-mail From: fwmiller@cs.umd.edu (Frank W. Miller) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Comparison Date: 5 Sep 1995 09:28:13 -0400 Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 Lines: 37 Message-ID: <42hj9d$g2n@zagnut.cs.umd.edu> References: <427nlp$9c1@parsifal.nando.net> <429r1b$8un@gryphon.phoenix.net> <42baln$7kb@zagnut.cs.umd.edu> <42f4c4$rj2@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: zagnut.cs.umd.edu In article <42f4c4$rj2@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: >Frank W. Miller <fwmiller@cs.umd.edu> wrote: > >>If you missed my previous post, FreeBSD recognizes my old HardCard XL, >>NetBSD did not. I ended up having to remove it tho, it crashed the >>installation after the device probe phase. > >Curious: what exactly is it? > It's a 50Mbyte IDE hard disk and controller all built together into a single card. I've used it mainly as a back up during this last couple of years. >>The fonts I used in XFree under NetBSD look different under FreeBSD, this >>is probably due to a different X server config but I don't know. One > >I think it's a question whether the 75dpi or 100dpi font directory is >included first in the FontPath. > Good thought, I'll check that. >The default behaviour for FreeBSD (until XFree86 3.1.1) was to inherit >the NumLock LED setting to the X server... I thank you and all who sent me email about this obviously well understood problem, uncommenting the XF86Config line solved the problem. Later, FM -- Frank W. Miller Department of Computer Science fwmiller@cs.umd.edu University of Maryland, College Park http://www.cs.umd.edu/~fwmiller College Park, Maryland 20742