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From: sxx4519@ultb.isc.rit.edu (S.X. Xue)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: [XFree86]  Help needed badly
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Date: 22 Nov 92 20:31:29 GMT
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In article <20NOV199220254593@v9001> you write:
>I am facing the same problem as what both Thanh Luu and S.X. Xue faced;  but I
>could not find any replies to their queries in comp.unix.bsd.
>I would appreciate if anyone could help us get started with XFree86 and 386BSD.
>Thanks in advance.
>

I've already got the XFree working. I would be happy to share my
experience with you and others who have the same problem. A suggestion I
would give here is to redirect the errors to a file by
	xinit >& err;sync

then you will you some error messages that you don't see on the screen by 
catting the file "err." In my case, I found out the permission of my mouse 
port (com1) and the font path were not set properly.

After doing that, if you still have problem running it, contact me if
you would. I would do my best to help you out if I could. I have to tell
you though, I am totally a beginner myself.

-Shan
sxx4519@ultb.isc.rit.edu