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From: veit@mururoa.gmd.de (Holger Veit)
Subject: Re: XFree startup error
Message-ID: <1993Apr19.070840.24228@gmd.de>
Sender: veit@mururoa (Holger Veit)
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Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, Germany
References: <1993Apr16.162302.9531@88open.org> <1993Apr17.094553.7021@tvt-k>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1993 07:08:40 GMT
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Your From: address is bad, so I post instead of reply by mail
(just to lazy to enter from the signature :-))
In article <1993Apr17.094553.7021@tvt-k>, paul@tvt-k (Paul Pries) writes:
|> ferg@88open.org (John Ferguson) writes:
|>
|> >When I try to start X, it fails with a message about KBDFORCEASCII ioctl
|> >inappropriate for device.
|>
|> >I am running with patchkit-0.2.2 and XFree86-1.2, with pccons. I just got
|> >Veit's codrv-0.1.2.ALPHA-230293.tar.Z and keycap-0.1.1.tar.Z, but have not
|> >installed them. Will they fix this problem. or is there something else
|> >wrong with my configuration?
I already replied to this problem. It is an effect from kbd_mode.
|> > ferg
|>
|> No, it won't.
|> I'm running the same setup exept that I've got codrv installed.
|> I've tried pcconc and syscons too, and they all work but I always get
|> the message about KBDFORCEASCII having an improper ioctl when I exit
|> from X.
|> With codrv the console hangs in some kind of graphic mode, and I have to
|> reboot to get rid of it...
This is more interesting for me. Please report any of these problems to
me. I need to know your video configuration, the used software versions
(xserver, codrv, etc.), the applied patches, and of course a description
of the effect.
Holger
|> /Paul.
|> --
|> Paul Pries email: 5322@msg.abc.se
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