Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 23:56:02 -1000 From: Gary Dunn <knowtree@aloha.com> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: X, NFS, 3C900 NIC Message-ID: <34D446B2.23A0@aloha.com>
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Aloha from Honolulu! I just got FreeBSD running this past week and have some questions I hope some of you with more experience can help me with: 1. How can I get better video performance with X? The system has a Matrox Millennia video board and a decent 17” monitor. I have done nothing more that run the sysinstall stuff and experiment with various settings, and launch X with startx. A. This setup gave sterling results with Windows NT (please, no beer can throwing). With X, at 800x600 and above the center of the screen “vibrates” especially side to side. Very high frequency, but slow enough to see the wiggle and not just a blur. Usable, but only with apologies. At 640x480 the image is rock solid but flickers as though it was refreshing at or below 60 Hz. B. The graphical elements are rather crude, reminiscent of Windows 1.0 and not at all like the beautiful things I had on an HP workstation I worked on a few years ago. Would Motif give me what I want? 2. How do I get NFS connectivity from a Windows 4.0 workstation or server? What would be cool would be to have my FreeBSD server appear in the Network Neighborhood window, perhaps under a sibling branch to Microsoft Network and Netware Network, called NFS. I tried a demo of a commercial product by Xlink (http://www.xlink.com/) but as yet have not got it to work. (It swears my security is not functioning, or that pcnfsd is not running.) Their interface was a bit outdated looking, too -- more like a Win 3.x app. If anybody has an elegant, cheap way to do this please let me know. 3. What needs to be working for Netscape to run? Just vanilla X, or do I need Motif? 4. I could not get a 3com 3C900-COMBO NIC to work. This is a PCI board. I changed to an SMC8000 series board, sixteen bit ISA, and it has worked flawlessly. I like to believe that the PCI board will be faster. 5. When I run /stand/sysinstall in muliti-user more the system dies with a page fault error, but it runs fine in single user more (that is, after executing shutdown). Is this what was intended? -- Gary Dunn Knowledge Tree Honolulu
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