Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 19:58:05 +0900 From: Jaeho Lee <jhlee@hanyon.co.kr> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X, MAKEDEV Message-ID: <349F993D.6182E2BF@mail.hanyon.co.kr> References: <349F7EC3.A148337F@ozemail.com.au>
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Geoff C. Marshall wrote: > > I have recently installed FreeBSD 2.2.5 and then cvs'ed it > to 2.2-STABLE. I am quite impressed in a number of ways, > but of course, I have a few problems. If someone can help > I would appreciate it. > > 1. How do I force xdm to start in greater than 8-bit > colour ? Presumably I can edit out lower modes > in XF86Config, but that seems a little crude. > Did you try ' DefaultColorDepth 16 ' in /etc/XF86Config file? > 2. I have been trying to configure a sound device, > and I seem to have it right, but there is no > /dev/snd0 and "MAKEDEV snd0" produces nothing > but a small pause. What am I missing ? > What information can I supply ? Did you rebuild the kernal with these options? controller snd0 device sb0 at isa? port 0x220 irq 7 drq 1 vector sbintr (if your sound card is sound blaster. You have to give correct irq) Please refer LINT for the setting. > > 3. I like to use Netscape for mail and newsgroups, > but the version that comes with FreeBSD (the > latest according to Netscape) works only while > "online". I need to pick a utility to get my > newsgroups from an AT&T newserver. "slurp" > doesn't seem to work (for me), any particular > recommendatons ? > > 4. Never having uses Unix for WYSIWIG word > processing before, what is the best approach ? > > Sorry about all this, really, but the wealth > provided with FreeBSD is a bit overwhelming. > > Geoff....
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