Subject: Re: Trouble installing on Q700
To: Bruce O'Neel <edoneel@sdf.lonestar.org>
From: William Duke <wduke@cogeco.ca>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 10/11/2005 20:29:35
Nah, mine was really slow. Although, I was running with only 8 megabytes of
RAM in my Q700 and BSD was really taxing the swap partition. I just upped
my physical RAM to 20 megabytes this evening, and everything seems to be
about 10 times faster. :)
The problem, apparently, was about memory, or the lack thereof.
Regards,
William
> From: "Bruce O'Neel" <edoneel@sdf.lonestar.org>
> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 18:02:40 +0000
> To: William Duke <wduke@cogeco.ca>
> Cc: Hauke Fath <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE>, port-mac68k@NetBSD.org
> Subject: Re: Trouble installing on Q700
>
> Hi,
>
> My powerbook 540c with 36 meg takes 10 secs or so. I'd be suprised
> if you took more than 2x that.
>
> cheers
>
> bruce
>
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 12:07:35PM -0400, William Duke wrote:
>>
>>> At 22:51 Uhr -0400 9.10.2005, William Duke wrote:
>>>> Okay, here's what I get when I type startx from the twal# prompt:
>>>>
>>>> xauth: (argv):1: bad display name "twal:0" in "list" command
>>>> xauth: (stdin):1: bad display name "twal:0" in "add" command
>>>>
>>>> Couldn't open RGB_DB '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb'
>>>
>>> Hm - the latter smells like problems with your installation.
>>>
>>> The former... I'd expect ':0' for DISPLAY on localhost. Do you set the
>>> DISPLAY environment variable manually? What is in your .xinitrc and
>>> .xserverrc?
>>>
>>> hauke
>>>
>>> --
>>> "It's never straight up and down" (DEVO)
>>>
>>
>> Okay, I did a re-install of NetBSD on my Q700 and everything now seems to be
>> in order. I typed startx at the command prompt and X began to boot - more
>> than an hour ago - it's still booting. So my question now, is, how long
>> does it take for a 25MHz Quadra 700 to boot into the X environment?
>>
>> I'm currently looking at a grey screen with a black "X" on the screen. Oh
>> wait, a little white window just appeared in the upper right hand corner.
>> I think I'm getting close!
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> William
>>
>>
>> PS. I don't think I'll be using the X environment in NetBSD. At least, I
>> won't be using it on my Quadra 700; boot time is ridiculous.
>>
>
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