On January 30, Tim Rightnour wrote:
> #1 How do you kill the server..  there doesn't seem to be a CNTL-ALT-BACKSPACE
> trick like in i386.  I ran it to test it once, and had to reboot to get out. 
> So far the only way I know to get out is the use of "kill"  ;)

  The ctrl-alt-backspace trick is an XFree86 thing, not an X thing.  I
don't know of any way to do that under X...but I haven't looked very
hard since I've never *needed* a way to do that. :)

> #3 In console mode (white bkg) the screen border goes nearly to the edge of the
> monitor, but in X mode, its about 1/2" - 3/4" inside.. is there a way to get it
> to map all the way out?  I have a cg6 card.

  Sounds like a monitor adjustment issue...the cg6 is a
single-sync-rate card, so inter-mode alignment variations aren't
really the result of framebuffer-ish things.  I've seen many monitors,
however, whose images would exhibit shrinkage that seemed to
correspond with the amount of non-dark areas on the display...a
current draw thing, I'd guess.

> #4 How do I keep console messages from running directly over the X display and
> ruining my screen?  It's kinda annoying.

  You want xconsole.  Take a peek at the man pages for it.  It does
what you need here.

> On a side note.. I have to admit.. NetBSD/sparc is *FAST*.  The X performance
> on this Sparc1 blows away any of my old 486's.  I thought this machine was
> gonna be a hog, but it really surprised me.

  Welcome to the non-PC world. :)


                         -Dave McGuire
                          mcguire@neurotica.com