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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.dacom.co.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Newly installed, some problems Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 16:59:23 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 22 Message-ID: <30BBB06B.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> References: <DIqysq.B8w@news.tcd.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b3 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Colin Dalton <csdalton@tcd.ie> Colin Dalton wrote: > First, with X. I have a Cirrus Logic 5429 based VGA board, but I have to use I would suggest either ditching that VGA card or trying one of the newer versions of X (3.1.2 would be good) with later versions of FreeBSD. I know that the Cirrus support has been fairly rapidly evolving. > The next problem is with menus. With programs like xpaint, xman etc, I can > click on the menu gadget/button, the menu will appear, but I can't Press the numlock key. :-) > Finally, I seem to be having problems with SLIP. I can connect to my ISP > just fine, I slattach and add a default route, and I can ping other machines Are you sure that you're using hardware flow control properly? Explicit header compression? The right IP address? :-) I run SLIP at 115.2K (ISDN) on a standard 16450 serial port and get 10.5K in *both* directions simultaneously, so I don't think it's the hardware being overrun in your case. :-) Jordan