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From: cavenerl@nbnet.nb.ca (Lance Cavener)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Needed help with Xwindows
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 00:49:24 GMT
Organization: VSi
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tysman@europa.com wrote:


>  Well I seem to be misunderstanding something, or not grasping it.
>But I attempted to setup Xwindows, in BDSI 2.1, and whenever it
>starts,  everything on the bottom "button" bar, is black except the
>clock, and the newspaper ( news reader option).
> We have a P120 box, with 64 meg of ram, Diamond Stealth 64 PCI 2 meg
>Video card. I swear I ran xsetup at least 100 times, but cannot seem
>to get the "right" combination to see anything further.

 Your wasting your time. BSDI 2.1 comes with X And AcceleratedX. Just
go to /etc/X11/AcceleratedX/binaries (I think) and run Xinstall, then
run Xsetup and set your video card to Diamond stealth, select true
color, and thats it.. It will work fine.. (It comes with the
Commercial version of XInsides AccelX 2.1.. I wonder where we can get
free upgrades to 3?)

 Lance