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Date:      Sat, 21 Oct 2000 15:54:21 -0700
From:      Craig Burgess <craig-burgess@home.net>
To:        FreeBSD-alpha mailing list <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Of mice, XFree86, & Netscape
Message-ID:  <39F21E9D.BB4968FC@home.net>

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Since cvsup'ing from 4.1 to 4.1.1 (rebuilt world & kernel), I've been
getting these:

  xl1: transmission error: 90
  xl1: tx underrun, increasing tx start threshold to 120 bytes
  xl1: transmission error: 90
  xl1: tx underrun, increasing tx start threshold to 180 bytes 

Is this anything I need to be worried about and/or can correct?

The rest is all whining about XFree86 on this machine:

  FreeBSD Felix 4.1.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE #7: Fri Oct 20
03:16:53 PDT 2000
  EB164
  Digital AlphaPC 164 500 MHz, 500MHz
  8192 byte page size, 1 processor.
  CPU: EV56 (21164A) major=7 minor=2 extensions=0x1<BWX>
  OSF PAL rev: 0x1000800020117
  real memory  = 265904128 (259672K bytes)
  avail memory = 252780544 (246856K bytes)
  Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xfffffc0000658000.
  Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xfffffc0000658000.
  cia0: ALCOR/ALCOR2, pass 3
  cia0: extended capabilities: 21<DWEN,BWEN>
  pcib0: <2117x PCI host bus adapter> on cia0
  pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
  xl0: <3Com 3c905-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0x10180-0x101bf irq 2 at
device 5.0 on pci0
  xl0: interrupting at CIA irq 2
  xl0: Ethernet address: 00:60:08:19:48:35
  miibus0: <MII bus> on xl0
  nsphy0: <DP83840 10/100 media interface> on miibus0
  nsphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
  pci0: <3D Labs model 0009 graphics accelerator> at 6.0 irq 0
  xl1: <3Com 3c905B-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0x10100-0x1017f mem
0x830a0100-0x83 0a017f irq 1 at device 7.0 on pci0
  xl1: interrupting at CIA irq 1
  xl1: Ethernet address: 00:10:4b:9c:da:ee

****************

Observations: there is no VGA16 server (upon which XF86Setup depends)
for XFree86. I've looked at several of the US FTP sites and of those
I've found, all are 45byte files - apparently empty.

If the mouse is defined and enabled in /etc/rc.conf ('psm0' as
sysinstall can do for you). xf86config (XFree86 3.3.6) trips over a
"busy" mouse, and exits back to the command line.

Not all Logitech PS/2-type mice (mouses?) are equal. Although the
system saw a 2-button mouse (P/N: 95426-0000) , XFree86 didn't.
Switching to a Logitech 3-button mouse (MouseMan P/N: 811158-00)
solved that mouse problem.

I changed su's shell to tcsh [chsh -s /usr/local/bin/tcsh] which
successfully changed the shell however, upon USER exiting X-windows on
the console, su generates this 

  Warning: no access to tty (Inappropriate ioctl for device).
  Thus no job control in this shell.
								
su is allowed but it appears to revert to the default shell. (I really
like tabbed filename completion.)

Finally, has anyone gotten Netscape for Tru64 to browse properly? I
got it installed and it launches but complains that it "cannot find"
urls by domain name. It displays my local webserver by IP number
(192.168.10.1). The same domains it can't find I can ping without any
problem so I'm almost confident that the nameserver entry in
resolv.conf is good. 

Thanks,

Craig Burgess
Vista CA


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