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Re: Next problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sun Dec 17 14:53:27 1995
To: jjnovak@MIT.EDU (John J. Novak )
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 17 Dec 1995 14:47:50."
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Date: Sun, 17 Dec 1995 14:53:14 EST
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> One of the reasons I chose netBSD over Linux is that I read that
> matrox hadn't released the techs on their card, so nobody's written
> an X driver for it in linux. I was hoping this wouldn't be an issue
> for NetBSD.
NetBSD and Linux use the same X server (XFree86), so whatever's an
issue for X for Linux is an issue for NetBSD. Also, NetBSD is just as
free as Linux, and doesn't have any special deals with vendors.
> SVGA settings sort of make the screen seem to fold over on itself to
> form an unrecognizable desktop.
If the screen folds over on itself, that's usually because the image
is displaced beyond the edge of the screen. Read towards the end of
/usr/X11/lib/X11/doc/VideoModes.doc (the troubleshooting section) to
see how to fix such errors.
> Someone might want to fix the time settings for the computer that
> hooks up with NetBSD. Every time I connect NetBSD, my computer's
> clock is set ahead one hour (i.e. daylight savings time). And it's a
> pain 'cuz techmail won't let you get kerberos when there's a one
> hour skew between you and the server.
I can't understand what you mean by this. Do you mean that when a
machine boots NetBSD, and then is booted again under DOS, DOS's time
is displaced one hour from what it was before? We can test this, but
we've never heard of this problem before.
