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X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 Organization: University of Rostock, Germany References: <57f3k9$9pn@gosset.maths.tcd.ie> From: lkoeller@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de (Lars Koeller) Subject: Re: X workman (or xview) problems (2.2-961014-SNAP) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc NNTP-Posting-Host: 139.30.40.28 Message-ID: <32a2f3e8.0@info4.uni-rostock.de> Date: 2 Dec 96 15:21:12 GMT Lines: 37 Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!mr.net!newshub.tc.umn.edu!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!info4.uni-rostock.de!139.30.40.28 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 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Internet: | Lars Koeller Lars_Koeller@odie.physik2.Uni-Rostock.DE | Department of Physics ftp://odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de | University of Rostock PGP-key: | Germany http://www.nic.surfnet.nl/pgp/pks-toplev.html | ----------- FreeBSD, what else? ---- http://www.freebsd.org ------------