Date: Wed, 20 Mar 96 17:35:41 MET From: Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de> To: black_mammoth@vt.edu (Black Mammoth) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Matrox Millenium Drivers Message-ID: <199603201638.RAA14395@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> In-Reply-To: <3150224D.66B8@vt.edu>; from "Black Mammoth" at Mar 20, 96 10:20 am
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> I'm just learning UNIX and really don't know a whole lot. I have a > Matrox Millenium w/4MB of WRAM and I had to buy $100 drivers for > X-Windows. I have the instructions here and I wasn't able to > install it. Here are the instructions that came with the drivers. > BSDI BSD/386 1.1 Installation Instructions > > Required software > You must have installed the Core X11 Clients. You may also have installed any or all of: X11 Server, > X11 Developer, X11 Manual Pages, Misc. X11 Clients > > Installation. > Login as root > # cd /usr/X11/lib/X11 > Insert Diskett 1 of 2. > # gunzip < /dev/rfd0 | tar -xvf - > Well there are more instructions, but I don't get past that part. > It says invalid directory. I would have to check and see what the > directory was. Obviously something isn't installed. My friend and > I think we need to install the stuff right above the "Installation. > Login as root." Would I have to install that stuff from the boot > disk? Any help is appreciated. Thanks You don't make it clear which operating system you want to run this software on. At first I thought you had sent a BSD/386 question to the FreeBSD news group. If that's the case, you've sent it to the wrong news group. I think the right one is users@bsdi.com. If, however, you want to run it under FreeBSD, I'm pretty sure the version for BSD/386 1.1 won't work. In that case, you should talk to XInside and get them to send you the right version (or the right instructions). There is a version available for FreeBSD, either now or Real Soon Now, but considering the version for BSD/386 1.1 won't even run on BSD/OS (the same OS) 2.0, it's pretty sure that it won't run on FreeBSD either. Assuming you have the right software and just the wrong instructions, you probably need to extract into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11, not /usr/X11/lib/X11. You still need to install the standard X11 packages first. The easiest way to do that is to install it when you're setting up the system. Since you've already got the system up and running, you might like to read the on-line handbook to find out how to install X11 on a running system. Greg ------------------------------------------------------------ Greg Lehey LEMIS grog@lemis.de Schellnhausen 2 Tel: +49-6637-919123 36325 Feldatal Fax: +49-6637-919122 Germany
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