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From: push@panix.com (SeVeN)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: FreeBSD woes. Help needed here! ;(
Date: Sun, 02 Jun 1996 16:56:58 GMT
Organization: P.U.S.H Systems
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After 5 days of playing around, I still haven't been able to do much with the
system. Newbie syndrome is driving me crazy. I finally got X to run nicely but
there's still some problems. I hope someone can help me out.
SYSCONS:
I finally figured out that the different fonts needed to run in 80x60 80x50 were
not loaded at default and now can run my consoles at 80x60. However I was
wondering if there is anyway to make 80x60 the default right after boot up? I
tried to run it with rc.local but vidcontrol keeps telling me that only able to
work on virtual consoles. So what files do I need to put the vidcontrol
variables in to let all my consoles boot up with 80x60???
Mount FS:
I have been successful in mount the DOS primary partition and the CD-ROM drive.
However I cannot figure out how to mount the logical partitions inside the DOS
extended partitions. Is it possible?? Also FreeBSD still doesn't support
MultiFat or FAT16 a.k.a win95 FAT yet right or does it?
FVWM:
Really nice looking X manager but there is some problems. I cannot get Xconsole
to run. It keeps telling me cannot start console. also why does it keep starting
with 1 login term and 2 extra Xterms?? I edited the .xinitrc in my home dir to
just start up with 1 login term and 1 Xterm. Also how do I make X startup with
16bpp by default??
Using X:
how do ppl usually start programs in X with?? I've been starting them inside the
Xterms or with the login term. however for many programs I keep having to do ^Z
and then bg just to get my xterm control back and have the program not
terminate.
thanks.
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