From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 7 12:21:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA24483 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 12:21:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from intele.net (quervo.intele.net [204.118.149.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA24478 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 12:21:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (wes@localhost) by intele.net (8.6.12/8.6.5) id NAA26340 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 13:21:01 -0700 From: Barnacle Wes Message-Id: <199602072021.NAA26340@intele.net> Subject: Re: X on 386sx To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 13:21:01 -0700 (MST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 6 Feb 1996, I stupidly admitted: % Funny, I have a perfectly workable FreeBSD installation running on % a 386sx/16, with 5 Meg RAM and a 100 Meg disk. Of course, I took % the time to read the installation instructions and do this without % complaining to the world at large that sysinstall wouldn't do it % for me. Richard Lyon asked, in return: > Are you running X windows on this machine? I did once, from an NFS-mount. Once I chucked the PS/2 mouse and plugged in an old serial mouse, it worked OK. This machine has a 256K VGA on the motherboard, and I have a 9" (yes, Martha, that's *nine* inch) paper-white vga monitor on it. It takes about 3 minutes for the Xserver to start, and another 2 or 3 minutes for XDM to come up. I don't really use this, I just wanted to try it. ;^) -- Wes Peters | Yes I am a pirate, two hundred years too late Softweyr | The cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder Consulting | I'm an over forty victim of fate... wes@intele.net | Jimmy Buffett