Re: Some Q's (fwd)

[Bjarne Wichmann Petersen <mekanix%worldonline.dk@localhost>]

Hello Ignatios

On 20-Nov-99, you wrote:

>> 1) How do I gain WRITE acces to AmigaDOS partitions? Every time I try
>> (eg. 'mount -t ados -w /dev/sd0f /mnt/dwl' or 'mount_ados -m 755
>> /dev/sd0f /mnt/dwl'I get a:
>> mount_ados:mount: Read Only file system4
> Yes. Our AmigaOS file system code is read-only. If you want to change
> this, add the write portion. Start by writing a fsck_ados.

... well, perhaps I should start with learning how to code first! ;-)

>> 2) Someone asked me to do a
>> X :7 -bpp 16 -probeonly >& x.log
> No need to probe... Amiga graphics boards are all well-detected by the
> kernel, and need no guessing by X11. Read INSTALL.X11 about how to set up
> X11.

That's not the problem. X works fine.

The problem is Blackbox and 16 bpp display. The author (I think it was)
asked me to do the above and send him the output.

>> 3) Virtual consoles, how do I go about that? Can't seem to find any info
>> on that.
> There aren't any. We will get them when some volunteer rewrite the Amiga
> graphics drivers to support wscons.

:-)

>> 4) When ending a X-session returns to the console, but an 'unclean' one.
>> The prompt pops up on the top in the middle of all the garble garble.
> Uhm... I can't witness this on the Altais (== Retina Z3 for all practical
> purposes). What graphics system do you use? What NetBSD version?

CV64 and 1.4.1 (the latest, right?)

Bjarne
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