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Subject: Re: MIT-SHM?
To: hmin@public.cq.sc.cn (HuangMin)
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 08:20:31 -0500 (CDT)
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In-Reply-To: <342CFD35.F5002A0F@public.cq.sc.cn> from HuangMin at "Sep 27, 97 08:33:58 pm"
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In a previous message, HuangMin said:
[Charset gb2312 unsupported, skipping...]

>I'm running FreeBSD 2.2.2, and I got some distributions of XF8633.
>When I start X, it said " MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of
>kernel support , ..........non-present SYSVSHM ", and no xterm run
>on X screen. What's MIT-SHM and SYSVSHM, can anyone answer me and
>help me solve this problem. thanks

It's shared memory. Add the following to your kernel config:

options              SYSVSHM
options              SYSVSEM
options              SYSVMSG
                                                       

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