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From: ccalex@usthk.ust.hk
Subject: keyboard problem with XFree
Message-ID: <1993Mar26.180703.1@usthk.ust.hk>
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Organization: The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1993 10:07:03 GMT
Hi Sirs,
I am a new user to 386bsd and XFree, I have the following questions and
wish you could help.
I have a 486PC, 16MB ram, 2 hard disks (drive C: Quantum 240MB, for DOS
and 386bsd, drive D: Quantum 105MB, for DOS only) both are IDE drives. And I
don't think my drive C will has bad sectors, because it is a new one, just
bought for several weeks. I don't know what kind of hard disk controller I have
got, it is a very small and cheap one, not especially from any popular vendor.
But I think it should be a IDE controller.
I always suffered from the problem with XFree, every time I exit from
XFree, my screen turn into garbage. Although I can still execute command,
I can not see the characters I typed. Below is the message from the
redirected output file:
XFree86 Version 1.2 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000)
Configured drivers:
VGA256 (256 colour SVGA):
et4000, et3000, pvga1, gvga, ati, tvga8900c, tvga9000
Mouse: type: Microsoft, device: /dev/com2, baudrate: 1200
FontPath set to "/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,
/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
VGA256: et4000 (mem: 1024k numclocks: 16)
VGA256: clocks: 25.2 28.3 32.5 36.1 39.9 44.9 50.4 65.0
VGA256: clocks: 0.0 56.7 0.0 72.3 79.8 89.8 100.8 130.1
VGA256: Mode "1024x768": mode clock = 65.0, clock used = 65.0
VGA256: Mode "800x600": mode clock = 50.4, clock used = 50.4
VGA256: Mode "640x480": mode clock = 25.2, clock used = 25.2
VGA256: Virtual resolution set to 1024x1024
VGA256: SpeedUp mode selected (Flags=0x3f)
waiting for X server to shut down xterm: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or
KillClient on X server ":0.0"
xterm: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X server ":0.0"
Cannot execute KBDFORCEASCII ioctl: Inappropriate ioctl for device
Can you tell me what is the meaning of the last three statements.
I wonder they are the reason of the trouble caused. Can you also suggest me
some solution to correct these problem?
Sorry for bringing so many questions, but I really need your help.
Thank you very much for your kindly attention.
I nearly forget to ask you another question, every time I boot up
386bsd, I saw the following message on the screen:
"find: ./.X11-unix: No such file or directory."
What does it mean and how to correct the problem?
Thank you very much for your kindly attention.
Best regards.
Alex
P.S. my email address is ccalex@usthk.ust.hk