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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