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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!wupost!darwin.sura.net!uvaarpa!rucs!rucs2!bmyers From: bmyers@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu (B.Myers) Subject: Re: HELP me make a /dev/vga for X11 under 386bsd Message-ID: <1992Sep30.054009.4895@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu> Keywords: HELP vga 386bsd X11 Organization: Radford University References: <tony.717293304@babel.cltr.uq.oz.au> <1992Sep24.135539.20555@super.org> <19uvbpINNsk@corax.udac.uu.se> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 05:40:09 GMT Lines: 61 >|> In article <tony.717293304@babel.cltr.uq.oz.au> tony@ctpm.uq.oz.au (Tony Jago) writes: >|> >If anybody could please tell me how to create this device or where I can find >|> >some instructions I would be made muchly happy! > >do mknod /dev/vga c 12 0 >(remember to change the ... console ... line in /dev/ttys to ... vga ...). > >|> >|> i have it too, but a different problem. >|> i run /usr/bin/X11/X :/dev/console >|> and it goes but then it can't make the unix domain socket. >|> It makes /tmp/.X11-unix, but then no socket ... >|> any ideas here? >|> i am using the supplied 386bsd kernel that is part of the 1.2E distrib. > >The X server should be started as: >X :0 >(or just X) >in your .xserverrc. Also be sure to have /usr/X386/bin in your >path, and set the environment variable DISPLAY to :0 (setenv DISPLAY :0 >in csh). You should also have a .xinitrc to start a few applications >when X starts. Use the startx command to start X, it (or rather xinit) >will execute your .xserverrc and .xinitrc. (This is assuming you don't >use xdm. I've never used it, so I don't know how to set that up. >You can put the startx command followed by a logout last in your .login >file to start X when you log in.) > There is a MUCH simpler way to go about starting Xwindows.. or at least I use everytime I log in... 1: make a .xinitrc file that makes some Xterms and starts some applications. 2: make a text file with the following program: #!/bin/csh -f /usr/bin/X11/xinit ~/.xinitrc -- /usr/bin/X11/X386 :0 >>& /dev/null 3: chmod this little shell script to a+rx and put it in /usr/bin/X11 so anyone/everyone can use it. This script can also be made into an alias for Cshell, and a function for Bourne shell. 4: type xwin to start Xwindows. Works every time. My X installation is in /usr/bin/X11 with a link from /usr/X386/bin -> /usr/bin/X11. > >Goran > >------------------------------+--------------------------------- >Goran Hammarback | goran@astro.uu.se >Astronomiska Observatoriet | >Uppsala Universitet | >S-751 20 SWEDEN | >------------------------------+--------------------------------- Where can I get MWM? Is it worth the trouble? I'm working on GWM port.. anyone else already got it??? Brandon Myers bmyers@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu