From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 28 08:27:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA13958 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 08:27:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from crh.cl.msu.edu (crh.cl.msu.edu [35.8.1.24]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA13944 for ; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 08:26:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (from henrich@localhost) by crh.cl.msu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA00852; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 11:26:44 -0500 Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 11:26:44 -0500 From: Charles Henrich Message-Id: <199603281626.LAA00852@crh.cl.msu.edu> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anybody checked out XQuad/Xcl? Newsgroups: lists.freebsd.hackers References: <4jedca$172d@msunews.cl.msu.edu> X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #3 (NOV) Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In lists.freebsd.hackers you write: >> Strange. Under -stable the install was painless and both run quite >> OK. I can't comment on bugs; they don't support 16bpp so they went >> back into the archive. The demo versions expire in three days anyway. >Hmmm. I followed each step explicitly, but this was under -current >and not -stable, so I wonder if that had something to do with it. >Various things feel over left and right, and when I installed >everything carefully by hand (after reading their installation script >to see what it would have done), I got apps that ran but complained >mightily about missing fonts and such (which were installed, and I set >their little environment variables up to point to them as per >instructions). I then composed a detailed log of my experiences, >send them to the bug reporting address and never got anything back. Strange, it must be you Jordan. I ran the install script and told it to write in /usr/local/X4u, which it did peachy keen. Everything went smoothly, and it works great for me (at 8bpp). A coworker of mine is also using it just fine... -Crh -- Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@msu.edu http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich