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From: scott@pita.cns.ucla.edu (Scott Burris)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: [Q] keyboards locks in X, console hickups in no X
Date: 14 Sep 93 23:30:29 GMT
Organization: UCLA Microcomputer Support Office
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References: <MYCROFT.93Sep6110554@trinity.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <DERAADT.93Sep8105708@newt.fsa.ca> <26ngecINNei6@fstgds01.tu-graz.ac.at> <hastyCD3MM0.CGz@netcom.com>
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hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes:

>I re-compiled XS3 under NetBSD-0.9 and no one has been able to
>run XS3 because the kernel failed to grant me access to the
>vga's i/o ports. 

Ah, would the symptom of this be that XS3.NetBSD coredumps without any visible
effect ?  I've been struggling to get it to work on my 0.9 system with 
no luck and I've checked over and over that I'm running a kernel with X 
support compiled in.
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