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From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: FAQ on X386-2E 1.1 for 386bsd 0.1
Message-ID: <agymcm_.hasty@netcom.com>
Date: 7 Aug 92 07:20:14 GMT
References: <7dwmqca.hasty@netcom.com> <1992Aug6.233607.11434@cotton.nc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
Distribution: comp.unix.bsd
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)
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In article <1992Aug6.233607.11434@cotton.nc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> shin@nc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Shin YOSHIMURA) writes:
>>>>>> On 05 Aug 92 15:24:32 JST, hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) said:
>
>>>> - why is my mouse acting so strange?
>
>>>> make sure that in your /etc/ttys that you have not enabled getty
>>>> on the com port which your mouse is attached.
>
>No getty's are running, but still my mouse is acting slow and strange.
>That is something uart problem ?
>
>>>> - Why is X server not accepting characters from the keyboard?
>>>>  If you started X from your console, X is probably competing with your
>>>>  shell for characters from the keyboard. I usually start X from a script:
>
>>>> 	xdm  -config /bd/X11R5/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config  
>>>> 	stty raw
>>>> 	sleep 99999999
>
>I have tried this script, but still X server seldom accepts characters
>from keyboard.   Sometimes it accepts when I hit the keyboard
>continuously.
>
>I am tring both of binary distribution (1.0.1) and self-compiled
>(1.0.2), but I have same problems.
>
>
>
>--
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Could you send your script, your Xconfig, and an output of the process
that were running when X is running


Thank you,
Amancio

P.S. Rich at rich@rice.edu and I did the port