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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!gatech!emory!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!gmd.de!veit From: veit@gmd.de (Holger Veit) Subject: Re: XFree startup error Message-ID: <veit.735051207@gmd.de> Sender: news@gmd.de (USENET News) Nntp-Posting-Host: gmdzi Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, Germany References: <1993Apr16.162302.9531@88open.org> Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1993 12:53:27 GMT Lines: 24 In <1993Apr16.162302.9531@88open.org> ferg@88open.org (John Ferguson) writes: >When I try to start X, it fails with a message about KBDFORCEASCII ioctl >inappropriate for device. This is a temporary hack that was made in "kbd_mode" (whichis called from startx) for keycap-0.1.0 (!). Which this version it performs some special cleanup. This command is no longer necessary in later versions, and of course it is not supported in any other console driver. The problem is that with the actual version of Xfree86 noone has yet cared to provide a new fixed version of kbd_mode. Since this message does no harm, you can simply redirect the output of kbd_mode to /dev/null; with keycap-0.1.1 or codrv-0.1.2 you can entirely remove kbd_mode from the startx script. Holger Veit >============================================================================= >John C. Ferguson 88open Consortium, Ltd. (408) 436-6600 > 100 Homeland Court suite 800 FAX (408) 436-0725 >ferg@88open.org San Jose, CA 95112 -- again logged-in from gmdzi, and again missing the .signature :-( Holger.Veit@gmd.de