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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!nntp.uio.no!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!news.maxwell.syr.edu!worldnet.att.net!newsadm From: "Alan W. Trulock" <FredI@worldnet.att.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: xterm doesn't work on 2.1.7 but everything else does?? Date: Mon, 03 Mar 1997 21:30:05 -0500 Organization: ...ought never be organized... Lines: 47 Message-ID: <331B892D.167EB0E7@worldnet.att.net> References: <331B5498.794B@ece.cmu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.116.67.179 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.7-RELEASE i386) To: Chris Inacio <inacio@ece.cmu.edu> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36481 I don't know what the problem is with your xterm, sorry. I can say that I am having no problems with FreeBSD 2.1.7 and XFree86 3.1 As for the CDROM problem, I can use my CDROM as a slave on the primary controller, but not as the master on my secondary controller. I have found that under 2.2-GAMMA, it does work just fine. Just waiting for the 2.2-RELEASE! --Al Chris Inacio wrote: > > The title pretty much says it all. I grabbed 2.1.7 from cdrom.com the > other day and Xfree86 stable 2.1 to go with it. I installed everything. > I can run X windows and twm and fvwm no problem. I get xeyes, xconsole, > some other X apps running just fine, but xterms DO NOT come up. The > only warning/error message I have to speak of is that my shared > libraries may be old. Does any one know if the shared libraries are the > cause? Does anyone know how to make this work? > > Just for curious parties: AMD k5-133, tseng et4000W32p_revb, 2 meg video > ram, att240c941 (hope that's the right number,) RAMDAC, Optiquest 2000DC > monitor, 16 meg ram, 1 gig IDE drive, etc. etc. (UMC motherboard > chipset.) > > I want to buy the 2.2 CD, but what is on it? (Heck, is there a 2.2 CD > available?) I would like to see a file list for a CD for FreeBSD to > know much more than the "base" system I'm purchasing. I know its a lot > more. Can someone email me a "ls -lr" of their FreeBSD CD? > > Lastly, I have a Hitachi IDE CD-ROM drive on 2.1.7, and the disk is > never ready to be mounted... "device not configured" Will 2.2 fix > this, does anyone know? I will try 2.2 out a little later, I just got > done sweating over 2.1.7. > > Thanks in advance, > -- > ----------------------------- > Chris Inacio > inacio(at)ece.cmu.edu > Carnegie Mellon University > Electrical and Computer Engineering Department -- Alan W. Trulock "http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/2763"