From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 3 06:37:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA10697 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 06:37:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from uswat.advtech.uswest.com (uswat.advtech.uswest.com [130.13.16.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA10692 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 06:37:55 -0800 (PST) From: ptroot@uswest.com Received: from egate.mnet.uswest.com ([151.116.23.138]) by uswat.advtech.uswest.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA22664; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 07:23:42 -0700 (MST) Received: from easthub (easthub.mnet.uswest.com [151.117.26.86]) by egate.mnet.uswest.com (8.7.1/8.7.1) with SMTP id HAA09468; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 07:31:25 -0700 (MST) Received: by easthub.mnet.uswest.com (M-Net Hub.951228) Received: from kermit.acs.uswest.com by astro.acs.uswest.com (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA12105; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 08:23:27 -0600 Received: by kermit.acs.uswest.com (5.x/SPARCbook_POP1.1) id AA01369; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 08:23:27 -0600 Message-Id: <9601031423.AA01369@kermit.acs.uswest.com> Subject: Re: Three problems with FreeBSD 2.1 To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 08:23:26 -0600 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199601022216.XAA17231@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jan 2, 96 11:16:50 pm X-Organization: !nterprise Networking Services X-Phone: (612) 663-1979 X-Fax: (612) 663-8030 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 200 S. 5th St., Suite 1100 X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55402 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk In a previous message, J Wunsch said: > > As ptroot@uswest.com wrote: > > > > 1) When I halt/reboot/shutdown the machine, it tries to > > sync but after a line full of 1 1 1 1 1 it says > > giving up. then on reboot it says / was not properly unmounted. > > > > Could it be that the partition goes past 1024 cylinders? > > No idea for this. The 1024 cylinders are not a problem for FreeBSD > (except for the boot process, where the BIOS is involved). Can you expand on this? > > 2) X won't work. > > I can only start it as root, though the device is 666. I > > tried this with both the sco and the vt console. (I built both) > > Which device? I found this one. It was operator error. I upgraded from Solaris 2.5 x86 and had some full paths to non-existant places in my .xinitrc. The devices were: /dev/ttyv4 and whatever the vt console device was. > > There is a 1 inch border on all sides. I don't have enough > > screen to let that happen. > > I thought it doesn't work? > > In case it works, but you aren't satisfied with the results, have you > considered xvidtune? Hadn't heard of xvidtune. I'll look for it. Any pointers/gotchas on this program? > > The mouse runs to 0 0 and then won't move from it, the > > first time you touch the mouse. This is the mse0 driver. > > Perhaps you've configured the wrong mouse protocol in the XF86Config > file? At Pedro A M Vazquez's prompting, I tried using the Mouse Systems driver (inside XFree86) and that worked. Who would have thought that you can't use the Logitec Bus mouse driver on a Logitec Bus mouse. Paul. -- Paul T. Root - USWEST !NTERPRISE Networking Service ptroot@uswest.com Would dogs play fetch if they knew how to throw the stick themselves?