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Added FAQ entries for tape changers and login names.
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<!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>
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<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
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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>
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<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>
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<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>Are there any commercial high-performance X servers?<label id="xinside"></heading>
<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="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.
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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">
<url url="http://www.xig.com/" name="Xi Graphics WWW page">
<tag/or/
<url url="ftp://ftp.xinside.com/accelx/1.1/prodinfo.txt"
name="Products information">
<url url="mailto:sales@xig.com" name="Sales"> or
<url url="mailto:support@xig.com" name="Support">
email addresses.
<tag/or/
<url url="mailto:info@xinside.com" name="Info E-mail address">
<tag/or/
phone +1 (303) 298-7478.
phone (800) 946 7433 or +1 303 298-7478.
</descrip>
<sect1>
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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>
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<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
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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>
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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/
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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
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<p>
Here is a list compiled by Glen Foster
<tt/&lt;gfoster@driver.nsta.org&gt;/:
<code>
<verb>
Vendor Model
- --------------------------------------------------------
ASUS PCI-L101-TB
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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>
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<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/