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From: sxx4519@ultb.isc.rit.edu (S.X. Xue)
Subject: Starter needs help!
Message-ID: <1992Nov16.082039.8939@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
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Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 08:20:39 GMT
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I recently installed a copy XFree86 on my newly installed 386BSD. I am
experiencing many problems. Hope experts out there would help me out.

Hardware:
   40 MHz 386DX
   AMI BOIS 7/7/91
   No math coprocessor
   8 meg ram
   200 meg and 40 meg IDE drives
   Fahrenheit 1280 vedio card
   Mousesystems serial mouse (com1)

OS:
   386BSD binary distribution from agate.berkeley.edu
   No source distribution, no etc dirstribution
   Updated kernel for XFree86
   XFree86 bininary distribution from the same ftp host
   X server is set to X386mono (trying to start generic VGA mode)

Problems:
   Printer driver missing (/dev/lp)
   C compiler does not work with floating point numbers
       -- all numbers are rounded off to intgers
   Mtools does not work,
       message-- init: open: No such a file or dirctory
   X server will not start,
       message-- Fatal I/O error 32. Broken pipe on X server...