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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news1.isp.net!progroup.com!news From: craig@progroup.com (Craig Shaver) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.windows.x.i386unix Subject: Re: X windows : ioctl problems with xterm Date: 11 Feb 1996 05:11:17 GMT Organization: Productivity Group, Inc. Lines: 52 Message-ID: <4fjtpl$6ge@trout.progroup.com> References: <4f30vt$l4j@over.mhv.net> <31177C54.2E@ordab.com> <4ffusn$dsv@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.progroup.com X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:13595 comp.windows.x.i386unix:19152 In article <4ffusn$dsv@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov>, Jeff Dickson <jdickson@vtol.jpl.nasa.gov> writes: >I am having trouble getting X going. I rebuilt the kernel to include PS/2 >mouse support. I set up the XF86Config file in /etc using all generic vga. >Some >information like horizontal and vertical frequencies were listed in the mon- >itor guide. I even put an .xinitrc file in my home directory. I used the >sample >in the xinit library directory. However, no matter what I do or redo when I >start X with startx, xinit, or run the server by hand (X &) - the screen looks >typical of X starting (polka-dot), the mouse pointer is there (and I can move >it around), and for an instance a comb looking pattern (blue) flashes on the >top of the screen and then...nothing. > >Any ideas? > Sounds familiar.... I am having the same problem that jkurtz@starbase.neosoft.com posted about on Dec 3rd. He said ... > > 2. XFree86 3.1.2 does not want to start up, giving me some error message like: > > (goes through startup, and even gets the graphics screen up with the X > cursor, then dies with the following:) > > login: Error 23, errno 25: Inappropriate ioctl for device > Did you dump your startx diagnostics (startx >& x.files)? You may be having the same problem that jkurtz and I are having. Either the xterm from XFree86 is bugged or the pty in freeBSD is the culprit. I had 2.0.5 working with its xfree86 and some other hardware, so I decided to upgrade to 2.1 and bought a bunch of pci equipment to run it right. In freeBSD 2.1 I found that I need to run the beta xfree86 3.1.2b to use a Diamond Stealth 64 that used the latest IBM 526 ramdac. I will be trying to find an old version of the xterm to see if I can get that to run. I doubt that I can get another version of the pty to work. Are there any others having this problem? Could it be a problem with the way I config'd the kernel when I rebuilt it? I tried a ps/2 mouse too, and then I switched to a bus mouse. Both seemed to work. I could get X to stay up by just putting twm at the bottom of the .xinitrc without putting it in the background. -- Craig Shaver (craig@progroup.com) (415)390-0654 Productivity Group POB 60458 Sunnyvale, CA 94088