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From: Nik.Clayton@brunel.ac.uk (Nik Clayton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.windows.x.i386unix
Subject: Re: X windows : ioctl problems with xterm
Date: 12 Feb 1996 10:43:24 -0000
Organization: Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
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Knowing me Nik Clayton, knowing you craig@progroup.com (Craig Shaver), ah-ha.
> > login: Error 23, errno 25: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>
>or the pty in freeBSD is the culprit. I had 2.0.5 working with its xfree86 and
>some other hardware, so I decided to upgrade to 2.1 and bought a bunch of pci
>equipment to run it right. In freeBSD 2.1 I found that I need to run the beta
>xfree86 3.1.2b to use a Diamond Stealth 64 that used the latest IBM 526 ramdac.
I had the same problem with my Diamond Stealth 64 DRAM PCI card., 2.1R and
X3.1.2.
Solution?
Stick
options "COMPAT_43"
in your kernel config file and recompile. Fixed it straight away.
N
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