DeJay wrote,
> > Did you have a coprocessor, and did you have xfs running?
> yes, I had a coprocessor.
> I believe you are referring to 'xdm', not xfs. i had xdm running as
> well. xfs (dos-based nfs client) was running on my 286, while pcnfsd
> nfsd and mountd were running on my 386.
Nope, I
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
> De Jay wrote
> > FYI, when I tried running Netscape on my 386 with 8M RAM (30M swap),
> > it locked up my machine every time. you've been warned.
>
> Did you have a coprocessor, and did you have xfs running?
yes, I had a coprocessor.
I believ
>X on a 386? *laff* Don't bother. I've been there, done that, as the
>saying goes. However, if you really enjoy pain that much, try using
>the most generic settings: SVGA driver at 640x480 resoltion. Make
>sure you look at the README file for your video card.. Start your
>machine again wit
De Jay wrote
> FYI, when I tried running Netscape on my 386 with 8M RAM (30M swap),
> it locked up my machine every time. you've been warned.
Did you have a coprocessor, and did you have xfs running?
A yar and a half or so ago, someone using macbsd without a coprocessor
found that, contrary to w
X on a 386? *laff* Don't bother. I've been there, done that, as the
saying goes. However, if you really enjoy pain that much, try using
the most generic settings: SVGA driver at 640x480 resoltion. Make
sure you look at the README file for your video card.. Start your
machine again without tr
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> Hi all!!!
>
> I just installed Debian 2.0 in a 386 machine, during configuration of
> packages, I was asked if I wanted to create the XF86Config file, I said
> 'yes' and after specifying my card, mouse, etc, it tried to switch to
> graphics mode. All the
>> Hi!
>> i'm pretty new to linux, and still struggling. i've installed bo 2
>> months ago.
>> I've AMD K6, 32M RAM, ATI Page II+ with 4M.
>>
>> i can't startx.
>> i wanted to ask whether anybody encountered special problems with ATI
>> Page II+, because my debian reacts only to ctrl+alt+del EVEN
On Sat, 23 Aug 1997, Craig Sanders wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Joost Kooij wrote:
>
> > I am currently working on a sort of HOWTO for dselect. It seems to
> > be a good idea to include a separate section dedicated to possible x
> > hassles.
>
> there's one other similar "gotcha" which i've r
On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Joost Kooij wrote:
> Yeah, this is a common problem. You should not upgrade x with dselect
> when running it in an xterm. Actually, I believe to have seen it once,
> somewhere in some documentation, but I can't remember where. Maybe I
> just remember it from neing mentioned on
On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, Charles Blair wrote:
> Thanks to Joost Kooi for suggesting I could bypass my mis-installed
> X installation by typing ``linux single'' at the LILO prompt. This
> allowed me to delete some stuff and salvage my system.
'single' still has many daemon processes running - you can
Marco Shinobu Matsumura wrote:
>
> .. I think it`d be interesting to describe what
> was my mistake: after following all the "how to update from an existing
> debian-1.2" instructions, I started dselect in a Xterm, and in the
> middle of the process dselect asked: "In order to upgrade to XFre
>
> Thanks to Joost Kooi for suggesting I could bypass my mis-installed
> X installation by typing ``linux single'' at the LILO prompt. This
> allowed me to delete some stuff and salvage my system.
>
> As a minor matter, typing ``linux emergency'' did not work. I was
> able to get on.
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