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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!darwin.sura.net!haven.umd.edu!uunet!pipex!warwick!zaphod.crihan.fr!vishnu.jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!ipgaix!peppe From: peppe@ipgaix.unipg.it (G. Vitillaro) Subject: XFree86-1.3 and X8514-0.1 Message-ID: <1993Jun29.173032.173128@ipgaix.unipg.it> Organization: Universita' di Perugia Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1993 17:30:32 GMT Lines: 38 I have problem with the speaker using X8514-0.1. Let me describe my environment. I have 386bsd-0.1 patch-kit 0.2.3 and XFree86-1.3 installed. XFree86-1.3 work perfectly with my Trident 8900, but I have an ATI 8514 ULTRA that I wat to use too. So I downloaded and installed X8514 (I know was supposed to work with XFree86-1.2, but you know ...). It work (almost) fine and the perfomance boosted: I'm able to work while "ico" is running. Well, the problem is that my speaker doesn't work while in X8514. It works with XFree86. Any attempt to do ESC in vi or "echo ^G" in xterm get just ... silence! I take a look to pccons.c code and discovered that sysbeep() (that I think is used by XFree86) is handled by the only ioctl supported command (when the XSUPPORT is included) in pccons.c. Maybe X8514 doesn't send the right ioctl to /dev/vga? Any way to get it to work without recompiling the X11R5 distribution (merging XFree86 and X8514 code)? This is something I cannot afford now: I haven't enough disk space. Maybe some other one already did that? I'm interested in a version of X8514 that handle compressed pcf.Z fonts too (my disk is in low fuel). Thank in advance for any help or suggestion, G. Vitillaro -- Giuseppe Vitillaro - IBM SEMEA | E-Mail : peppe@ipgaix.unipg.it University of Perugia Italy | 06100 Perugia Phone:+39.75.585-2200 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- All comments/opinions are mine and don't represent those of IBM