From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 23 12:28:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA05313 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 23 Dec 1997 12:28:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from zerium.newmedia.no (root@[194.198.117.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA05306 for ; Tue, 23 Dec 1997 12:28:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hanspb@persbraten.vgs.no) Received: from localhost (hanspbie@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zerium.newmedia.no (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA03024; Tue, 23 Dec 1997 12:28:18 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 12:27:17 +0100 (CET) From: Hans Petter Bieker X-Sender: hanspbie@zerium.newmedia.no To: "Geoff C. Marshall" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X, MAKEDEV In-Reply-To: <349F7EC3.A148337F@ozemail.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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-