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Svend Sorensen | 3 Dec 2005 03:07
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Re: Problems with xinitrc

On 11/28/05, drovar <drovar <at> alltel.net> wrote:
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> I've been reading this list for a while and installed NetBSD on my Mobile
> Pro 780 without too much trouble. But I found the default xterms to be way
> oversized for my liking. I copied xinitrc into / and changed a few things
> but the changes didn't have any effect. It seems xinit isn't reading
> /.xinitrc at all but rather the read-only copy at
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc

Your copy of xinitrc should be at ~/.xinitrc (where ~ is your home directory).

> I used vi to make some
> changes to that file and overroad the read-only status. Those changes showed
> up.

If you want to change the defaults for xterm, try setting
xterm.geometry in .Xresources.

$ cat ~/.Xrecources
XTerm*vt100.geometry: 40x12
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Nicholas Melnick | 5 Dec 2005 23:58

More binary packages for NetBSD 2.1...

Hey everyone. Been lurking for a while, doing trial and 
error to get stuff going on my beat up old MobilePro 780.

As I'm sure many of you have done before, and likely will 
keep doing, I've posted a page with binary packages I've 
put together, since the main NetBSD archive is lacking a 
/lot/ of packages.  There's no rhyme or reason to what 
package you'll find yet, it's just stuff that I'm 
compiling as I need them.  It's by no means complete, and 
will likely grow quite a bit over the next few weeks as I 
experiment with window managers and web browsers.  The 
base of Matchbox is up there, and the rest of gtk should 
be up later today. I tried to keep the standard directory 
layout, so pointing pkg_add at All/ should give the 
desired response for dependencies.

Please let me know if you have any suggestions, or if I 
should refrain from posting stuff like this again. ;)

NetBSD/hpcmips 2.1 Packages Collection
http://www.abstractwankery.com/hpcmips/

Thanks for all your help so far, folks. This list is 
great.

  - Nick
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oski | 6 Dec 2005 10:35
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Re: More binary packages for NetBSD 2.1...

Hi Nick,

I think it is very usefull, and I will use them as requiered.
Many thanks and keep with the updating.
oski

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nicholas Melnick" <outzider <at> fsckedhost.com>
To: <port-hpcmips <at> netbsd.org>
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 10:58 PM
Subject: More binary packages for NetBSD 2.1...

> Hey everyone. Been lurking for a while, doing trial and 
> error to get stuff going on my beat up old MobilePro 780.
> 
> As I'm sure many of you have done before, and likely will 
> keep doing, I've posted a page with binary packages I've 
> put together, since the main NetBSD archive is lacking a 
> /lot/ of packages.  There's no rhyme or reason to what 
> package you'll find yet, it's just stuff that I'm 
> compiling as I need them.  It's by no means complete, and 
> will likely grow quite a bit over the next few weeks as I 
> experiment with window managers and web browsers.  The 
> base of Matchbox is up there, and the rest of gtk should 
> be up later today. I tried to keep the standard directory 
> layout, so pointing pkg_add at All/ should give the 
> desired response for dependencies.
> 
> Please let me know if you have any suggestions, or if I 
> should refrain from posting stuff like this again. ;)
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Nick | 9 Dec 2005 09:03

Xhpc CPU usage

Does anyone notice a high Xhpc CPU usage when using any of the window 
managers?  I successfully have it rendering anti aliased text, but 
whether running Matchbox or XFCE4, Xhpc is using 20-25% of the CPU at 
all times, which seems odd when it's doing nothing at all.

Anyone know anything about this? I don't know enough about the history 
of this project... why isn't Xorg used?  what is the source of Xhpc -- 
where can I find any documentation, or even a source of the program?

  - Nick
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Eric Olinger | 15 Dec 2005 00:56

NetBSD on a Sharp Mobilon HC-4600


Hello all,
   I've been playing around NetBSD on my HC-4600 for a little while now
off and on, and I've ran into a few problem. I'm wondering if anyone can
point me to any other information, code sections, or suggestions on
fixing these problem. I've tried goggling some answers but I've come up
a little short on some of the information.

   Some of these problems seem to be related to differences between the
HC-4100/HC-4500 and the HC-4600. The HC-4600 physically has a PR31700 in
it like the HC-4100 and HC-4500 but it uses the TX3912 kernel like
stated on the ports page. The generic kernel hard locks the machine.
From looking around there isn't much info on the HC-4600 and NetBSD.
Most people seem to have used the HC-4100/HC-4500.

I do program in C (among other languages) and have a some kernel
experience, just not with NetBSD directly. So I'm not bad with technical
details.

1) The HC-4600 is running CE 2.0 (Never got in on the free 2.11 upgrade
   they had going for a while) but the pbsdboot.exe crashes, but
   pbsdboot1.exe seems to work fine. The pbsdboot.exe crashes with a:

      Fatal Application Error

      Application PBSDBOOT.EXE has performed an illegal operation and
      will be shut down. If the problems persists, contact the program
      vendor.	
		
      Program: PBSDBOOT.EXE
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oski | 16 Dec 2005 21:04
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Mounting a 2nd CF in a ibm z50

Hi,

I have installed netbsd 2.1 using ftp and went like a charm without any
problems.
Now I would like to install some of the packages compiled by Nicholas
Melnick. I downloaded the packages to a CF formatted as FAT, one partition
only and using my windows box. I did that in the past without problems but
this time did not work.
I am doing the following:

1. Insert the CF using an adapter in the PCMCIA slot. The CF is correctly
identified as wd1.
2. Doing "mount -t msdos dev/wd1d /mnt1" I get a "no disk label "
3. I did "disklabel wd1" and got a fictitiuos disklabel indicating 8
partitions with partitions d  e  f g  and h unused.
4. Doing "disklabel -e wd1" I get a "/dev/rwd1d: device busy" answer.
5.Doing "mount -t msdos /dev/wd1d /mnt" i get a "device busy" answer.

I read the instructions of mounting a msdos file systems, but can not
reproduce it.
What I am missing or doing wrong??????

Any help will be much appreciated.

oski
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Andy Ruhl | 17 Dec 2005 00:29
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Re: Mounting a 2nd CF in a ibm z50

On 12/16/05, oski <oski2001 <at> hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have installed netbsd 2.1 using ftp and went like a charm without any
> problems.
> Now I would like to install some of the packages compiled by Nicholas
> Melnick. I downloaded the packages to a CF formatted as FAT, one partition
> only and using my windows box. I did that in the past without problems but
> this time did not work.
> I am doing the following:
>
> 1. Insert the CF using an adapter in the PCMCIA slot. The CF is correctly
> identified as wd1.
> 2. Doing "mount -t msdos dev/wd1d /mnt1" I get a "no disk label "
> 3. I did "disklabel wd1" and got a fictitiuos disklabel indicating 8
> partitions with partitions d  e  f g  and h unused.
> 4. Doing "disklabel -e wd1" I get a "/dev/rwd1d: device busy" answer.
> 5.Doing "mount -t msdos /dev/wd1d /mnt" i get a "device busy" answer.
>
> I read the instructions of mounting a msdos file systems, but can not
> reproduce it.
> What I am missing or doing wrong??????
>
> Any help will be much appreciated.

I'm not sure if this helps, but I have this in my howto for NetBSD on
a Mobilepro 880:

WinCE uses fdisked drives.  You might want to try the following:
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djb_netbsd | 17 Dec 2005 02:18
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Re: Mounting a 2nd CF in a ibm z50

You want to use "mbrlabel wd1"

sleep 5 </dev/rwd1c && mbrlabel -w wd1 && mount -t msdos /dev/wd1a /mnt

You need all of that because the mbrlabel does not stay in memory very long so you have to use the info quickly. 
In general that is how you would mount any partition of a DOS like fdisk structure, zip drives, CF
micro-drives, etc.

djb
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come se fosse antani | 19 Dec 2005 12:39
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first tipps to begin with a z50

Hi.
I know that there are a lot of pages about z50 and netbsd but I'm a
bit confusing.
I'm lurking this ML since months and I collected a lot of info about
the installation steps.
on the hpcmips port webpage I find that the last release is the 2.1
and in this ML I found that 'z50 works flawlessy with the standard
kernel of netbsd 3.1,without the need of patching kernel'.
1.I guess that there are a typing error in it, right?
2.normally I used (for the last tries in install netbsd) the zzball
page. is ever uptodate with the current state?
3.I have a ethernet pcmcia card and a wireless card (both compatible
with netbsd). I would like to install trough ftp and then I (think
that I) need only the "launcher kernel", the one used for install
netbsd.
where can I find it? I found only the tar.gz parts (etc, games, x11,ecc).
4. I don't have the memory expansion for the z50 (impossible to
find... anyone that sell one?) and I would like to use it for www
browsing, blogging, sshing and somehow skypeing... what I've to
install?

many thanks for the help but sometimes having a lot of info about
something make it hardier to understand...

antani

--
keep in mind the power of antani
antani at gmail dot com
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come se fosse antani | 19 Dec 2005 12:51
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Re: first tipps to begin with a z50

and.....
according to zzball's page, is possible to use also Linux on the z50.
AFAIUnderstand, the problem is with the memory use (linux use only
16mb ram) and then for an unexpanded x50 "it's the same" linux or
netbsd.... right?
for software availability, which is preferred between linux and
netbsd? it seems that the linuxVR project is fairly dead...

thanks again

On 12/19/05, come se fosse antani <antani <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi.
> I know that there are a lot of pages about z50 and netbsd but I'm a
> bit confusing.
> I'm lurking this ML since months and I collected a lot of info about
> the installation steps.
> on the hpcmips port webpage I find that the last release is the 2.1
> and in this ML I found that 'z50 works flawlessy with the standard
> kernel of netbsd 3.1,without the need of patching kernel'.
> 1.I guess that there are a typing error in it, right?
> 2.normally I used (for the last tries in install netbsd) the zzball
> page. is ever uptodate with the current state?
> 3.I have a ethernet pcmcia card and a wireless card (both compatible
> with netbsd). I would like to install trough ftp and then I (think
> that I) need only the "launcher kernel", the one used for install
> netbsd.
> where can I find it? I found only the tar.gz parts (etc, games, x11,ecc).
> 4. I don't have the memory expansion for the z50 (impossible to
> find... anyone that sell one?) and I would like to use it for www
> browsing, blogging, sshing and somehow skypeing... what I've to
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