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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!howland.erols.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!rain.fr!magic.fr!ppp3-56.magic.fr!user From: "Jan M. Dziewulski" <jan@fusion.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: netBSD on a Daystar 040 Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 23:50:48 +0100 Organization: --- Lines: 24 Message-ID: <jan-0104972350480001@ppp3-56.magic.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp3-56.magic.fr X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet Mail and News for Macintosh - 1.1 (34) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5725 I have a MAC IIsi with a Daystar Turbo040 (w/ copro) and a FastCache. I have 17Mb RAM and a 270Mb HD, yet I still encounter problems with running netBSD, and in particular X11R6. The version of netBSD I have dates from about oct/nov 96 I think ( but not later ). XWindows' problem is that it takes ages to start up (about 5-10 mins) and is very slow. - Could this be due to not enough RAM ? netBSDs' problem is that if my Daystar accelerator board is in the machine, netBSD starts up, and when the screen is white (ie just started), I get fuzzy colors on a scrolling rectangle. (ie a very nasty crash) - Could this be due to the SCSI driver, should I have the kernel on a mac partition, not on the A/UX one, should I try with a newer version ( the current one ). I am not very familiar with UNIX but very keen to get it running and learn. Could somebody help if they have any ideas (please) ? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Jan M. Dziewulski -- "Kinky Taxman" jan@fusion.com -- "Ofan" ofanto@stanford.edu