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From: lkoeller@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de (Lars Koeller)
Subject: Re: X workman (or xview) problems (2.2-961014-SNAP)
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In article <57f3k9$9pn@gosset.maths.tcd.ie>,
	ajudge@maths.tcd.ie (Alan Judge) writes:
>I'm trying to get workman (and X CD player tool) working on a FreeBSD
>box (2.2-961014-SNAP, Accelerated X server, Matrox 8MB).  I seem to be
>getting some xview related crash from workman.  I tried pulling the ports and 
>rebuilding everything, but that didn't help any.
>
>Can anyone out there verify that workman/Xview does work on 2.2-SNAP?
>(I tried both 8 bits deep and 24 bit.)
>
>The error message is:
>XView warning: Problems setting default modifier mapping (Server package)
>XView warning: Notifier error: Bad file number
>zsh: 701 segmentation fault (core dumped)  workman
>
>The modifier stuff doesn't seem important and goes away for some
>other settings of Xaccel.  It is probably related to some server NumLock
>support that I turned on.  I tried ktracing workman, since it won't work
>properly under gdb, but I don't see anything obvious.  Not even a recent
>syscall returning EBADF.  Perhaps something in the most recent return packet
>from the X server.
>
>Any ideas?

Switch off NUM-Lock! 

Lars
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