From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 27 20:05:55 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id UAA19727 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 27 Aug 1995 20:05:55 -0700 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA19717 for ; Sun, 27 Aug 1995 20:05:52 -0700 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin [198.145.90.34]) by Root.COM (8.6.12/8.6.5) with ESMTP id UAA15248; Sun, 27 Aug 1995 20:04:55 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.11/8.6.5) with SMTP id UAA17802; Sun, 27 Aug 1995 20:06:44 -0700 Message-Id: <199508280306.UAA17802@corbin.Root.COM> To: R Robert Willman cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0.5 In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 27 Aug 95 21:50:17 CDT." From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Sun, 27 Aug 1995 20:06:44 -0700 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >I have run into 3 current problems when installing 2.0.5. > >1. After trying to change the path and doing so in a session, when I >shutdown the system and restarted it, the changes to the path were gone and >were not saved. I added /usr/X11R6/bin to the path. Also, I set umask to >022. I made these changes to try to set up X11R6 that came with your >CD-rom. Whether I shutdown and halted the system and rebooted it, or shut >it down, halted it, turned it off, and turned it back on, the attempted >changes made using "set" were not saved and I would have to do them each >time I logged in. The path and umask should be set in your .cshrc file in your home directory. >2. After I loaded the system and rebooted it, and then shut it down, halted >it, and rebooted it, or did a shutdown and halt and turned the system off >and then on, unless I had the CD-rom drive on and the disk in it, the >system would not finish booting properly. This would happen if I turned off >the computer entirely, turned off the CD-rom drive, removed it from the SCSI >port, and put a SCSI terminator on the port at the back of the computer, and >then turned the computer back on and booted it up. This is what the screen >said at the end of the booting sequence: > >Automatic reboot in progress >/dev/rsd0a: clean, 7659 free (107 frags, 944 blocks, 0.5% fragmentation) >/dev/rsd0sle: clean, 271946 free (10354 frags, 32699 blocks, >3.1% fragmentation) > >cd9660: /dev/cd0a: Device not configured >Filesystem mount failed, startup aborted >Enter pathname of shell or RETURN for sh: > >If I had the CD-rom drive plugged into the computer, turned on, and had the >disk in it, the booting would complete properly and I would be at a login >in which I would put root and get into a C shell. You need to remove or comment out the /dev/cd0a entry in your /etc/fstab. >3. The X window system comes up but the screen is badly distorted, like >it is made of tweed. I can see the three windows with red bars at the >top, and that there is a clock in the upper right hand corner, but nothing >can be read. It is not fuzzy, it is tweeded-out all over, including in >the windows, as one mess. If I click the mouse in the background, the menu >comes up, and it will show highlighted words as the pointer is pulled down, >but the words cannot be read--they are too distorted. When I cycle through >the resolutions (4 of them), using cntr-alt-numpad+, the size of the screen >and windows change as each should. I have checked the config file and the >settings for the S3 chipset. My system is described below. Can't help you with this one. -DG