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Date:      Tue, 23 Dec 1997 12:27:17 +0100 (CET)
From:      Hans Petter Bieker <hanspb@persbraten.vgs.no>
To:        "Geoff C. Marshall" <count@ozemail.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: X, MAKEDEV 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971223122141.2448B-100000@zerium.newmedia.no>
In-Reply-To: <349F7EC3.A148337F@ozemail.com.au>

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On Tue, 23 Dec 1997, Geoff C. Marshall wrote:

> 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.

XF86Config:
Section "Screen"
[..]
   DefaultColorDepth 16
[..]
EndSection

> 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 ?

/dev/audio, /dev/dsp etc

>     newsgroups from an AT&T newserver.  "slurp"
>     doesn't seem to work (for me), any particular
>     recommendatons ?

I use leafnode as my local news server.

> 4.  Never having uses Unix for WYSIWIG word
>     processing before, what is the best approach ?

Try Corel Word Perfect v7.0 for Linux. http://www.sdcorp.com/
(15-day free working demo)

-bieker-




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