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From: meikel@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de (Michael Feig)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: keycap problems
Date: 9 Nov 1992 22:06:09 GMT
Organization: ZRZ/TU-Berlin
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Message-ID: <1dmnchINNqj7@mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
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Keywords: keycap

I installed the recent version of keycap onto our BSD machine by 
patching the kernel according to the given diff-Files and supplemental
source files. Everything works fine as long as I don't start X-Windows 
(XFree 1.2) using the compiled X386 which is part of the keycap-0.1.1
distribution. Within X-Windows the mouse works only in horizontal 
direction and the mapping of the keyboard is totally out of order 
(pressing the 'a', 's', 'd' keys causes numbers to appear, shift right
produces some special character like '=' or '+' - I forgot what it
actually was). Some time later (~30 seconds) the whole BSD-machine
hangs and has to be rebooted.

Just to make things clear: X-Windows worked absolutely all right without any 
problems  before installing keycap.

As a try to solve the problem, I used the supplied kernel instead of the
one  I have build  from the sources after applying all necessary patches,
but I discovered that doesn't contain the patch for reserved ports with
NFS which is essential for us, because we have to mount part of the
BSD system from a Sun via NFS.

Has anyone experienced similar problems or has anyone an idea how
I can get things going the way they are supposed to work ?

Thanks for your help, Michael.

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 Michael Feig                 INTERNET: meikel@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de
 Department of Physics                  meikel@cs.tu-berlin.de
 Technical University of Berlin