Subject: Some general questions
To: None <port-arm32@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Peter Naulls <pnaulls@wave.co.nz>
List: port-arm32
Date: 01/02/1997 19:43:40
These are questions I've had for a while, thought it was time I got
someone to answer them :)
I keep getting a lot of "Last message repeated..." errors. What are these
caused by, and better yet, how do I cure them?
I've set up xdm, which is all well and good, but I get "getty is repeating
too quickly on tty09, sleeping". How do I stop these?
Another thing about xdm, when I do a reboot if it is running, the machine
will not reboot, but will either put me into debuging mode, or completely
lock the machine.
Strangely enough, I too am getting a lot of serial buffer overflows - is
a cure in sight? And I'm getting network card buffer overflows too, which
can be kind of nasty (I-cubed card).
No doubt the answer to this is blantantly obvious, I just haven't seen the
answer anywhere - how do I boot X in 32k colours? And is there a way to
increase the number of palette entries so applications don't keep running
out of colours?
I'm afraid I don't recall my kernel version at this point, but it's dated
mid December. My machine is a RPC700, with 21MB.
Incidentally, I have the source to Sather (If you don't know what this is
then don't worry :), I might be conviced to have a go at compiling it
for RiscBSD if anyone is interested - It's already been ported for another
NetBSD version.
Thanks a lot, Peter
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