Subject: Re: Newbie questions
To: port-amiga@NetBSD.ORG <port-amiga@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Lars Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ucc.ie>
List: port-amiga
Date: 05/26/1998 12:10:05
David Brownlee writes:
>
> On Mon, 25 May 1998, Lars Hecking wrote:
>
> > 1) Is there any possibility to tell the kernel which video mode
> > to boot into? I have to take out my EGS Spectrum to run NetBSD
> > because the default video mode is too much for the monitor
> > (38k SVGA).
> >
> Can't help on this one (I run other NetBSD ports)
Too bad. This is most inconvenient :(
[virtual consoles]
> All ports can run 'screen' (available in the packages collection),
That's just fine. Could have thought of this myself ...
> NetBSD has ktrace & kdump. ktrace dumps the system call
> information to ktrace.out, kdump decodes the output file.
> My guess is you'll want to chmod the keyboard device, or use
> xdm. Personally I use xdm :)
Hhm, I have never used xdm. Could give it a try, though.
[can't mount ext2fs]
> Have you 'file-system EXT2FS' in your kernel config?
Nope. Why did I think it would be in GENERIC? :)
I compiled a new kernel now, but disklabel sd1 still shows "unused".
Joern Clausen writes:
>
> To use my Archive Viper, I do first
>
> mt fsr 1
> mt rewind
>
> and sequent accesses with mt, tar or dump work fine. I guess, this kind
> of "initializes" something, err, or maybe not...
You're probably right. These commands make it work for me, too,
with both rst0 and nrst0.
bsieker@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de writes:
[startx]
> Make sure the Xserver is setuid root.
> (e. g. chmod u+s /usr/X11R6/bin/Xamiga)
Needless to say, it wasn't ...
Another problem has surfaced: the HD floppy driver seems broken.
When I untar a floppy written on a SunOS machine, the resulting files
are corrupt. On AmigaOS and Linux, they are just fine. I use
tar xvf /dev/fd0b.
Thanks for all the feedback!
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