Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 13:55:08 +0200 From: Thomas Widlundh <tw@ettnet.se> To: Marius <MBKING0@VM.SC.EDU> Subject: RE: A couple of... Message-ID: <99051714131000.00992@tw.oden.se> References: <199905161840.UAA01040@maskin.ettnet.se>
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Most of this is over my head, so I forwarded it to FreeBSD-questions...
But lets see what I can add, humble as it may be.
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> In /stand/sysinstall:
>
> Go to "configure" then "packages" and pick out the various programs you
> want from the lists (and sublists) of packages that you find there. Lynx is
> there under the www browsers catagory...and so forth.
> Hi Marius,
>I Thank You for answering. I thankfully receive any suggestions which can help
>me.
>I tried Your description above to use /stand/sysinstall and installed lynx.
>A lot of noice from the HD, but there is no lynx. I managed to see a fast
>message about /usr/bin/lynx, but it's not there!
>There is a lynx in ports/www/ though, but this I have to install somehow?
>I tried make install, and a lot happend, but ended up with errors code 1 or
>something.
It would be good to look at www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/index.html
for this, just in case you are missing something. I am not quite sure what
went wrong. There is instructions both for getting ports off the CD-ROM and
the internet.
>I'm trying to config XF86 too from /stand/install.
>I am to be congratulated of having a working server.
>But startx ends with errors too. I've tried with SVGA and VGA16, 8bbp and
>640x480. These errors tell me that there are "no valid modes found" or "There
>is no mode definition named "640x480".
It sound like you installed the right server, so I am not quite sure
what would be wrong.
>When I "installed" the VGA16, there was a question about linking this, and I
>answered Yes. For SVGA no question. Can this be it?
I doubt that is the problem.
>I'm going nuts on this! I did have RedHat installed for a period and then
>Caldera1.1. And with this very same graphics. In Caldera XF86 didn't work for
>some reasn though, but MetroX did work. And vice versa with RedHat.
>Once I thought Linux was a mess, but now I think Linux is a "child's playing",
>as we say in Sweden, compared to FreeBSD.
>Thomas
With only one part working in Caldera, and the opposite in Redhat, it
sounds like a hardware config problem to me. But I am definately not sure.
Does anyone wiser on this list know?
This is being cc-ed to the questions list. Hopefully someone else can
be of more help to you.
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Marius
mbking0@vm.sc.edu
University of South Carolina, Columbia
"We will get along fine once you realize that I am almost always wrong."
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