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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA6372 ; Fri, 08 Jan 93 15:07:49 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!uw-beaver!newsfeed.rice.edu!rice!news.Rice.edu!rich From: rich@Rice.edu (& Murphey) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: [386BSD] XFree86 Questions: Help! Message-ID: <RICH.93Jan9220339@superego.Rice.edu> Date: 10 Jan 93 04:03:39 GMT References: <1iq7ltINN15i@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> Sender: news@rice.edu (News) Reply-To: Rich@rice.edu Organization: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University Lines: 70 In-Reply-To: david@maxwell.ucsc.edu's message of 10 Jan 93 22:23:57 GMT >>>>> In article <1iq7ltINN15i@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, david@maxwell.ucsc.edu (David Darknell) writes: David> NNTP-Posting-Host: maxwell.ucsc.edu David> Congratulations to all of you wonderful programmers for this treat! David> Wow! I have been trying to install 386BSD on my 486/33 8M/535M HD David> and have some problems, primarily they are: David> 1. I can't find anywhere the procedure for installing XFree86 with David> a Logitech bus mouse (irq5). I did manage to get XFree86 to David> recognize a serial mouse. We currently have three drivers available by anonymous ftp: A port of Erik Forsberg's bus mouse driver for 386bsd was posted to comp.unix.bsd in Oct 91 by Sandi Donno sandi@uctcs.cs.uct.ac.za. It's available by anon ftp from kappa.rice.edu (128.42.4.7) in pub/ms-busmouse.tar.Z. A beta release of a logitech Bus Mouse driver written by Fred Cawthorne <fcawth@delphi.umd.edu> which supports XFree86 under 386bsd. It's on kappa.rice.edu in pub/logitech-busmouse-0.2.shar.Z. Rick Macklem <rick@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca> wrote a driver for the Logitech and ATI Inport Bus mice for use with 386bsd. There are patches to this driver by Eugene Stark <stark@sbcs.sunysb.edu> to support the Microsoft bus mouse. It's on kappa.rice.edu in pub/Macklem-busmouse.uu. 386bsd kernel binaries with bus mouse drivers are not available, but if someone were willing to help us test and support them it could be done. We can't without the hardware. David> 2. Whenever I invoke xinit with the Logitech settings (in Xconfig) David> Logitech "/dev/com1: David> etc.. David> My screen is shifted to graphics mode, and is never restored when David> X dies. I have to sync;shutdown to restore my screen. when I David> comment out the Logitech device driver, the screen is not corrupted. David> Why? If you kill the server or it dies, it doesn't restore the screen. It should restore the screen when the server is allowed to shut down gracefully. David> 3. I now have the message, when I invoke xinit: David> ... David> VGA256: SpeedUp mode selected (Flags=0x3f) David> Fatal Server error: David> could not open default font 'fixed' Incorrect font istallation can cause this error message and the most common mistake is uncompressing /usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc/*. This causes the server to abort when it cannot open compressed font files listed in /usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.dir. The safest way to fix it is to unpack core-fonts-1.1.tar.Z again. But you can also compress them if you uncompressed them, or rerun mkfontdir in order to fix the fonts.dir file. Rich David> XIO: fatal IO error 32 (... David> I have two font directories, 75dpi, and misc which were in the David> orig distribution. Neither has any font named, 'default'. What David> am I missing here? David> thanks! David> David