Date: Sun, 01 Feb 1998 05:09:09 -0500 (EST) From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" <marcus@miami.edu> To: Gary Dunn <knowtree@aloha.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: X, NFS, 3C900 NIC Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.96.980201050432.1311A-100000@jaguar.ir.miami.edu> In-Reply-To: <34D446B2.23A0@aloha.com>
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As for optimizing X, you could look into the Accelerated X drivers from Xi Graphics (http://www.xig.com), or try playing around with xvidtune(1). As for sharing with NT/95, don't bother with NFS. Install the Samba port. It is a SMB server for UNIX that is completely compatible with NT/95. It will get your FBSD box to show up in Network Neighborhhod with any name you want. If you don't like the way X looks, intsall a better window manager. Try afterstep or enlightenment. If you like W95, try qvwm or fvwm-95. For a cool desktop look and feel, try kde. All of these are available from the ports page off of the FreeBSD homepage. Motif is nice, but afterstep's GUI is pretty neat too. Also, look into the free lesstif (Motif 1.2 compatible). It comes with mwm. But, if you're use to HP/UX, you'll probably be most at home with kde, a few CDE work-alike. Joe Clarke On Sat, 31 Jan 1998, Gary Dunn wrote: > Aloha from Honolulu! > > I just got FreeBSD running this past week and have some questions I hope > some of you with more experience can help me with: > > 1. How can I get better video performance with X? The system has a > Matrox Millennia video board and a decent 17” monitor. I have done > nothing more that run the sysinstall stuff and experiment with various > settings, and launch X with startx. > > A. This setup gave sterling results with Windows NT (please, no beer > can throwing). With X, at 800x600 and above the center of the screen > “vibrates” especially side to side. Very high frequency, but slow enough > to see the wiggle and not just a blur. Usable, but only with apologies. > At 640x480 the image is rock solid but flickers as though it was > refreshing at or below 60 Hz. > > B. The graphical elements are rather crude, reminiscent of Windows 1.0 > and not at all like the beautiful things I had on an HP workstation I > worked on a few years ago. Would Motif give me what I want? > > 2. How do I get NFS connectivity from a Windows 4.0 workstation or > server? What would be cool would be to have my FreeBSD server appear in > the Network Neighborhood window, perhaps under a sibling branch to > Microsoft Network and Netware Network, called NFS. I tried a demo of a > commercial product by Xlink (http://www.xlink.com/) but as yet have not > got it to work. (It swears my security is not functioning, or that > pcnfsd is not running.) Their interface was a bit outdated looking, too > -- more like a Win 3.x app. If anybody has an elegant, cheap way to do > this please let me know. > > 3. What needs to be working for Netscape to run? Just vanilla X, or do I > need Motif? > > 4. I could not get a 3com 3C900-COMBO NIC to work. This is a PCI board. > I changed to an SMC8000 series board, sixteen bit ISA, and it has worked > flawlessly. I like to believe that the PCI board will be faster. > > 5. When I run /stand/sysinstall in muliti-user more the system dies with > a page fault error, but it runs fine in single user more (that is, after > executing shutdown). Is this what was intended? > > > -- > Gary Dunn > Knowledge Tree > Honolulu >
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