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From: rone@bofh.noc.best.net (Ron Echeverri)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: A few newbie questions hoping to get solved
Supersedes: <5nk9f6$t8r$1@bofh.noc.best.net>
Date: 11 Jun 1997 15:19:55 -0700
Organization: fidgety systems administrators gmbh
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References: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970610100135.185A-100000@epee.ipv6.irdu.nus.sg>
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In article <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970610100135.185A-100000@epee.ipv6.irdu.nus.sg>,
Tan Juay Kwang <tanjk@epee.ipv6.irdu.nus.sg> wrote:
>However, after installing I've encountered some problems :-
>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.
You should install the Netscape 3.0 port, which sets all environment
variables correctly and should help fix all your problems.
>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.
I'm not sure why your secondary IDE controller isn't being found. You
might want to boot into Windoze and see what address your secondary
IDE controller resides at. My IDE CD-ROM is the secondary master and
it runs fine.
>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?
It's perfect.
>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?
That's the default device. You need to specify the device for workman
with -c. RTFM. Also, workman by default wants to create workman.pid
in /var/run, and will complain unless it can write to it. I've
changed /var/run's mode to 1777, which is the simpler solution if you
don't want to go back into the source and change the setting for the
PID file.
>Lastly, rcd0c is a character device while wcd0c is a block device.
That's normal. You'll probably find rwcd0c as well, which is the
character device which goes with wcd0c.
rone
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