Subject: problems on a IIsi ( X!)
To: None <port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG>
From: tinusz nijmeijers <tinusz@xs4all.nl>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 09/05/1995 03:00:09
hello everyone,

I installed netbsd on my IIsi and everything went beyond expectation, I 
have to say. I still have a few questions though. They are the result of 
my inexperience, I know, but I got overexcited and wanted more than just 
being able to do ls -al, on a MACINTOSH (!)

here's my setup :
IIsi, 40 mB at scsi 0, 520 MB at scsi 2 of which 240 is A/UX, and 15 is 
swap; 5 MB memory; Apple two-page monochrome (256 shades of g.) monitor 
with it's own video card. ( no serial console I think, I don't even know 
what that is anyway [ a terminal plugged in my modem/printer port ?])

personal config : PC user ( OS/2, dos/win (3.11/95), linux triple boot) 
so I'm not ignorant ( still didn't get X working on Linux, got a 
Diamond). Bought a IIsi for the heck of it, like it, but then I saw netBSD 
and imagined how cool it would be to run X on a Mac.

I installed : 	 base.tar, comp.tar, etc.tar, games.tar, man.tar, misc.tar, 
X11R6.tar, dt-1.1.2.tar, hfs.tar.
All of them pretty new (newest I could find). I think it says version 
1.0A when I start it up.

Problems:
-	can't go to a another virtual terminal (flower-2,3,4,5 ? does not work)
-	dt does not work, just before exiting the startup, a message 
flashes in the left-down-corner of the screen, something about lines I think
-	X, does not know how to handle the monitor. It starts and I see a 
garbled image, there seem to about 6 small windows which are the same, 
I'v seen this before on a PC, and it looks like it has something to do 
with monitor settings, I can move the mouse around, which makes me feel 
good, the mouse moves in all the 6 windows ( or all 5 or all whatever)

If these questions are not mac specific, I apologize and would be 
greatful for pointers to get the information needed.
If the answers to these questions are in a FAQ, I apologize, I searched 
and could not find the docs, pointers to where these docs are to be found 
will be appreciated.

many thanks to all the people who let me do 'ls -al' on a Mac.

-- 
Tinusz Nijmeijers                                 Un sot trouve toujours un
tinusz@xs4all.nl                                  plus sot qui l'admire. S.H.