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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!pumpkin.pangea.ca!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.he.net!uwm.edu!msunews!gvsu!river.it.gvsu.edu!behrensm From: behrensm@river.it.gvsu.edu (Matt Behrens) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: A few newbie questions hoping to get solved Date: 10 Jun 1997 12:59:18 GMT Organization: Grand Valley State University Lines: 65 Message-ID: <5njj36$dnh@news.gvsu.edu> References: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970610100135.185A-100000@epee.ipv6.irdu.nus.sg> NNTP-Posting-Host: river.it.gvsu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42676 Tan Juay Kwang (tanjk@epee.ipv6.irdu.nus.sg) wrote: : 1. I've got AfterStep 1.0 running as my X Window manager. Whenever I run : netscape 3.0, it gave me a hell load full of warning messages about : XKeysym. I've read all related materials but I'm still groping blindly for : the solution. That aside, netscape always exited on signal 11 : (segmentation fault) whenever I try to view the document source. I'm also : hoping somebody out there can shed light on this. Could this be an X : problem or the OS problem. I had previously run netscape on Linux with no : problems at all, also using AfterStep. The best way to install Netscape is from the ports collection. cd to /usr/ports/www/netscape3 (or 2 or 4) and type make install. The error messages you refer to are related to a not-found XKeysymDB file. You can hack it out, I think, by setting XKEYSYMDB=/usr/X11R6/lib/XKeysymDB (or where it is.) : 2. I've got problems getting the kernel to recognise my IDE CD-ROM. During : boot-up, I've got this mesg : : wdc1 not found at 0x170 : [my IDE CD-ROM is on the secondary master] : Wondering if this could be the source of the problem since it cannot see : the secondary IDE controller. Whenever I try to "mount -t cd9660 : /dev/wcd0c /mnt", it returns an error with Device not configured. All the : time I had a valid CD-ROM in the drive. AFAIK, the only place an IDE CD-ROM will be recognized is as the primary slave drive. And then it's not always perfect :) : While I'm at this topic, here's another related problem. I have a SB : Vibra16 installed and this is what the boot up message says :- : sb0 at 0x220 irq 7 drq 1 on isa : sb0: <SoundBlaster 16 4.13> : sbxvi0 at 0x0 drq 5 on isa : sbxvi0: <SoundBlaster 16 4.13> : sbmidi0 at 0x330 on isa : <SoundBlaster MPU-401> : I'm not sure if these messages means that the kernel recognised the sound : card correctly. Can somebody please enlighten me? I've not tried to use my Vibra card on FreeBSD, but it looks good to me. Try finding an au file somewheres and cat it to /dev/audio to test. : Assuming all these are correct, I tried to run workman, the Open look : style CD player. First it complains that it can't open /dev/rcd0c and : suggest that I chmod 555 /dev/rcd0c. Another question here, the config : file I clearly specify device wcd0 under the options ATAPI but why is : workman trying to access rcd0c instead of wcd0c? workman needs to be reconfigured. I don't recall how exactly. rcd0c is character access for SCSI CD-ROM 0. : Lastly, rcd0c is a character device while wcd0c is a block device. Yep. -- Matt Behrens Zigg Computer Services zigg@iserv.net http://www.iserv.net/~zigg/