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From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer)
Subject: Some minor problems with NetBSD-1.0
Message-ID: <1995May24.072157.16502@wavehh.hanse.de>
Organization: The poor LISPers' hacking kitchen
Date: Wed, 24 May 95 07:21:57 GMT
Lines: 51

I've got some problems using NetBSD-1.0pl00-06 on i386. Maybe some
kind soul could be of some help?

1) Where can I find information on pccons? I want to swap Ctl/CAPS,
modify typematic rate, maybe use a different foreground color. Looking
at the source it seems pcconc is capable of all this, but I don't find
information on the interface. A few iotcl()s seems to be defined, but
not for all features.

2) emacs-19.28 running inside a xterm with `emacs -nw` deattaches from
the terminal when hitting C-g. This doesn't happen when running on the
console without X. Using emacs in X11 mode (without -nw) works, too.

I attached to the runaway process and got the following backtrace:

#0  0x10179c34 in select ()
#1  0x6e627 in wait_reading_process_input (time_limit=0, microsecs=0, 
    read_kbd=16777215, do_display=1) at process.c:1976
#2  0x25fbe in kbd_buffer_get_event () at keyboard.c:2072
#3  0x258f5 in read_char (commandflag=1, nmaps=2, maps=0xf7bfd90c, 
    prev_event=17841156, used_mouse_menu=0xf7bfd9b0) at keyboard.c:1702
#4  0x28883 in read_key_sequence (keybuf=0xf7bfd9e8, bufsize=30, 
    prompt=17841156) at keyboard.c:4621
#5  0x24b83 in command_loop_1 () at keyboard.c:1038
#6  0x5931a in internal_condition_case (bfun=0x249b4 <command_loop_1>, 
    handlers=17841456, hfun=0x24524 <cmd_error>) at eval.c:1096
#7  0x247e1 in command_loop_2 () at keyboard.c:879
#8  0x58f8a in internal_catch (tag=0, func=0x247c8 <command_loop_2>, 
    arg=17841156) at eval.c:886
#9  0x247ac in command_loop () at keyboard.c:859
#10 0x24406 in recursive_edit_1 () at keyboard.c:694
#11 0x244d1 in Frecursive_edit () at keyboard.c:736
#12 0x23bdc in main (argc=3, argv=0xf7bfdbb4, envp=0xf7bfdbc4) at emacs.c:762

3) XFree86-3.1.1 (compiled here) runs without problems except for
xterm. Error message:
  
  xterm: Error 25, errno 6: Device not configured

I assume some wild ioctl happens here. I noticed that XFree86-3.1.1
still holds my system for NetBSD-1.0BETA and maybe some interface
changed. Any (sourcecode) solution? 

Thanks for your time.
	Martin

BTW, I *really* like the system :-)
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