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authorPeter da Silva <pds@FreeBSD.org>1997-04-20 11:53:53 +0000
committerPeter da Silva <pds@FreeBSD.org>1997-04-20 11:53:53 +0000
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Updating FAQ entry for X Inside.
Added FAQ entries for tape changers and login names. Fixed <code> tags. PR: docs/3324 PR: docs/3326
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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<!DOCTYPE linuxdoc PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD linuxdoc//EN">
-<!-- $Id: FAQ.sgml,v 1.43 1997/04/10 10:20:46 brian Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Id: FAQ.sgml,v 1.44 1997/04/10 12:06:53 asami Exp $ -->
<article>
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
<author>Maintainer: Peter da Silva <tt><htmlurl url='mailto:pds@FreeBSD.ORG'
name='&lt;pds@FreeBSD.ORG&gt;'></tt>
-Last updated: <date>$Date: 1997/04/10 10:20:46 $</date>
+Last updated: <date>$Date: 1997/04/10 12:06:53 $</date>
<abstract>
This is the FAQ for FreeBSD systems version 2.X All entries are
@@ -1306,6 +1306,21 @@ options PSM_CHECKSYNC #checks the header byte for sync.
Some of the early 8-mm drives are not quite compatible with
SCSI-2, and may not work well with FreeBSD.
+ </sect1>
+
+ <sect1>
+ <heading>How about tape changers?</heading>
+
+ FreeBSD 2.2 supports SCSI changers using the <tt/ch/ device and the
+ <tt/chio/ command. The details of how you actually control the
+ changer can be found in the <tt/chio(1)/ man page.
+
+ If you're not using <tt/AMANDA/ or some other product that already
+ understands changers, remember that they're only know how to move a
+ tape from one point to another, so you need to keep track of which
+ slot a tape is in, and which slot the tape currently in the drive
+ needs to go back to.
+ </sect1>
<sect1>
<heading>What sound cards are supported by FreeBSD?</heading>
@@ -1566,9 +1581,8 @@ options "CMD640"
<sect1>
<heading>Where can I get Motif for FreeBSD?</heading>
- <p>Contact <url url="http://www.xig.com" name="Xi Graphics">
- for a Motif v2.0 distribution for FreeBSD 2.1 (tested also with
- 2.2-current as of May 10, 1996).
+ <p>Contact <ref id="xig" name="Xi Graphics"> for a Motif 2.0
+ distribution for FreeBSD.
This distribution includes:
<itemize>
@@ -1581,12 +1595,22 @@ options "CMD640"
<p>Be sure to specify that you want the FreeBSD version of Motif
when ordering! Versions for BSDI and Linux are also sold by
- <em>X Inside.</em></p>
+ <em>Xi Graphics</em>.</p>
+
+ <sect1>
+ <heading>Where can I get CDE for FreeBSD?</heading>
+ <p>Contact <ref id="xig" name="Xi Graphics"> for a CDE 1.0.10
+ distribution for FreeBSD. This includes Motif 1.2.5, and can
+ be used with Motif 2.0.
+
+ <p>Be sure to specify that you want the FreeBSD version of CDE
+ when ordering! Versions for BSDI and Linux are also sold by
+ <em>Xi Graphics</em>.</p>
<sect1>
- <heading>Are there any commercial high-performance X servers?<label id="xinside"></heading>
+ <heading>Are there any commercial high-performance X servers?<label id="xig"></heading>
<p>
- Yes, <url url="http://www.xinside.com" name="X Inside, Inc.">
+ Yes, <url url="http://www.xig.com" name="Xi Graphics">
sells their Accelerated-X product for FreeBSD and other Intel
based systems.
@@ -1594,22 +1618,19 @@ options "CMD640"
for multiple concurrent video boards and is distributed in binary
form only.
- Price is &dollar;99.50 (promotional price for Linux/FreeBSD
- version) for the 1.1 version, which is available now.
-
- This product is for FreeBSD 1.1 and runs under 2.0 with the
- FreeBSD 1.1 compatibility libs (``<tt/compat1xdist/'').
+ There is a free "compatibility demo" of version 3.1 available.
+ Xi Graphics also sells Motif and CDE for FreeBSD (see above).
+
<descrip>
<tag/More info/
- <url url="http://www.xinside.com/" name="X inside WWW page">
- <tag/or/
- <url url="ftp://ftp.xinside.com/accelx/1.1/prodinfo.txt"
- name="Products information">
+ <url url="http://www.xig.com/" name="Xi Graphics WWW page">
<tag/or/
- <url url="mailto:info@xinside.com" name="Info E-mail address">
+ <url url="mailto:sales@xig.com" name="Sales"> or
+ <url url="mailto:support@xig.com" name="Support">
+ email addresses.
<tag/or/
- phone +1 (303) 298-7478.
+ phone (800) 946 7433 or +1 303 298-7478.
</descrip>
<sect1>
@@ -1668,7 +1689,7 @@ options "CMD640"
You may also wish to investigate the Xaccel server, which is
available at a very reasonable price. See section
- <ref id="xinside" name="on Xaccel"> for more details.
+ <ref id="xig" name="on Xi Graphics"> for more details.
<sect1>
<heading>Why doesn't my mouse work with X</heading>
@@ -1777,21 +1798,21 @@ options "CMD640"
<p>
You first need to edit the <tt>/etc/sysconfig</tt> in the last
section to change the following variable to <tt/YES/:
- <code>
+ <verb>
# Set to YES if you want ibcs2 (SCO) emulation loaded at startup
ibcs2=NO
- </code>
+ </verb>
It will load the <tt/ibcs2/ kernel module at startup.
You'll then need to set up /compat/ibcs2/dev to look like:
- <code>
+ <verb>
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 9 Oct 15 22:20 X0R@ -> /dev/null
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 7 Oct 15 22:20 nfsd@ -> socksys
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 0 Oct 28 12:02 null
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 9 Oct 15 22:20 socksys@ -> /dev/null
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 41, 1 Oct 15 22:14 spx
- </code>
+ </verb>
You just need socksys to go to <tt>/dev/null</tt> to fake the
open &amp; close. The code in -current will handle the rest.
This is much cleaner than the way it was done before. If you
@@ -1886,6 +1907,19 @@ pseudo-device vn #Vnode driver (turns a file into a device)
With the trailing slash, <tt/chmod/ will follow the symlink,
``<tt/foo/'', to change the permissions of the directory,
``<tt/bar/''.
+ </sect1>
+
+ <sect1>
+ <heading>Why are login names <bf/still/ resticted to 8 characters</heading>
+
+ You'd think it'd be easy enough to change <bf/UT_NAMESIZE/ and rebuild
+ the whole world, and everything would just work. Unfortunately there's
+ scads of applications and utilities (including system tools) that have
+ hard-coded small numbers (not always "8" or "9", but oddball ones
+ like "15" and "20") in structures and buffers... and it would break
+ Sun's NIS clients and no doubt cause other problems in interacting
+ with other UNIX systems.
+ </sect1>
<sect1>
<heading>When I mount a CDROM, I get ``Incorrect super block''.</heading>
@@ -2711,9 +2745,10 @@ disk fd1 at fdc0 drive 1
memory information...but for now we're stuck with the kernel
option.
- <code>
+ <tt>
options "MAXMEM=<n>"
- </code>
+ </tt>
+
Where <tt/n/ is your memory in Kilobytes. For a 128 MB machine,
you'd want to use <tt/131072/
@@ -2727,9 +2762,9 @@ disk fd1 at fdc0 drive 1
network buffers (specifically, mbuf clusters). You can increase
the amount of VM available for mbuf clusters by adding:
- <code>
+ <tt>
options "NMBCLUSTERS=<n>"
- </code>
+ </tt>
to your kernel config file, where &lt;n&gt; is a number in the
range 512-4096, depending on the number of concurrent TCP
@@ -3175,7 +3210,7 @@ vat_nv_record Recording tools for vat ftp.sics.se:archive/vat_nv_record.tar.Z
<p>
Here is a list compiled by Glen Foster
<tt/&lt;gfoster@driver.nsta.org&gt;/:
-<code>
+<verb>
Vendor Model
- --------------------------------------------------------
ASUS PCI-L101-TB
@@ -3192,7 +3227,7 @@ SMC EtherPower 10/100 (Model 9332)
SMC EtherPower (Model 8432)
TopWare TE-3500P
Zynx ZX342
-</code>
+</verb>
</sect1>
<sect1>
<heading>Why do I have to use the FQDN for hosts on my site?</heading>
@@ -3875,14 +3910,14 @@ domain foo.bar.edu
<heading>ACKNOWLEDGMENTS</heading>
<p>
- <code>
+ <verb>
If you see a problem with this FAQ, or wish to submit an entry,
please mail us at <FAQ@FreeBSD.ORG>. We appreciate your
feedback, and cannot make this a better FAQ without your help!
FreeBSD Core Team
- </code>
+ </verb>
<descrip>
<tag/Gary Clark II/