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From: rich@Rice.edu (Richard Murphey)
Subject: Re: [386BSD] STILL SILO overflows, X problems.
In-Reply-To: vax@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu's message of 30 Nov 92 09:53:18 GMT
Message-ID: <RICH.92Nov30134115@omicron.Rice.edu>
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Organization: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice
	University
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Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1992 19:41:15 GMT
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In article <84484@ut-emx.uucp> vax@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Vax) writes:
   On a similar note, I have applied all the patches and initx/startx complain
   that my kernel does not have X support.  I 'config GENERICISA'ed it, and
   then 'make depend' 'make'd it, then I copied it to /386bsd.  The new
	 ^^ not sure about that.
   kernel is about 40-60k larger.  Still no luck.  Am I missing something?

make sure your kernel configuration file includes the options:

options XSERVER,UCONSOLE

Otherwise the X support wil be #ifdefed out.  XFree86 includes a note
about about this in the README.386bsd file.  Perhaps it's time we made
this a default rather than a n option.  Rich