From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 7 00:02:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA16533 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 00:02:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA16517 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 00:02:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from alpha.CES.CWRU.Edu (alpha.CES.CWRU.Edu [129.22.16.10]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id AAA02846 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 00:02:33 -0800 Received: from fluorite.CES.CWRU.Edu (fluorite.CES.CWRU.Edu [129.22.16.99]) by alpha.CES.CWRU.Edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA28774; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 02:59:50 -0500 (EST) From: Kazem Akbari Received: (from akbari@localhost) by fluorite.CES.CWRU.Edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA00395; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 03:00:58 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199603070800.DAA00395@fluorite.CES.CWRU.Edu> Subject: Re: Question regarding CD-Drive access and XF86 To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Date: Thu, 7 Mar 96 3:00:57 EST Cc: akbari@alpha.CES.CWRU.Edu (Kazem Akbari), freebsd@freebsd.com, xfree86@xfree86.com, questions@xfree86.com In-Reply-To: ; from "Doug White" at Mar 6, 96 10:30 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= |==> |==> On Wed, 6 Mar 1996, Kazem Akbari wrote: |==> |==> > It has been for past three weeks which I am struggling to install |==> > and test the XFree86 on my computer but in spite of all my efforts the |==> > resolution is really terrible and I cannot do anything to fix it. |==> |==> It would be nice if you would tell us what the problem is :) The problem is, the resolution of my X-window is terrible, in other words the cursor scrolls down, up, left, and right out of the frame of my monitor, I mean some of the windows are not visiible unless you point the curser to the sides of monitor's screen. In addition, the Ctl-Alt-+ is not working for the recycling of the resolution. In the mean time, there are three windows in the X-window (login, xterm, and xterm) environment, but the problem is, my T-shell facilities are not working properly (i.e., aliases). And also when I click on the "exit" of the icon-menu to get out the X-window, only the icon-menu get disappeared but the system does not shut down the X-window, so the only solution is to type Ctl-Alt-BackSpace to get out the X-window. Therefore, I tried to fix the problems by having access to the extra CD-rom from vendor (Walnut Creek), but I couldn't mount it because the message says: mount: Command not found. I believe the cdrom device is not configured. Anyways, any help is appreciated to solve these problems. |==> > In |==> > the mean time, I do not know how to have access to CD-Drive in the |==> > Unix system to read from (i.e., %> D: in DOS for example). It will be |==> > greatly appreciated if you give me a detailed direction for the |==> > successful installation of the XFree86 and having access to the |==> > "Floppy and CD drivers". |==> What UNIX are you using? FreeBSD? If so, I need to know what kind of |==> CDROM you have, where it is connected, and some generic machine details |==> (cpu, disks, etc). I am using the FreeBSD 2.1, and other information is as follows: CD: 6x internal from TEAC Floppy: 1.44 from NEC CPU: Intel Pentum 133 MHz Motherboard: Endeavor II, with Triton Chipset and 512kb Pipline-Burst Cache RAM: 32MB EDO (60ns) Hard: 2.1 GB EIDE from Seagate Graphic: Diamond Stealth-64 Video VRAM (model 3400XL) with 4MB VRAM Monitor: CTX 1785GMe .26 dp and (1280x1024) I hope it's enough. Should you have any further question don't hesitate to drop me a note. > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Kazem Akbari. --