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RE: Keyboard Prob
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Subject: RE: Keyboard Prob
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 17:31:09 -0500
OK
but we still have problems with non US keyboards.
Suhaib
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Collins [mailto:robert.collins@itdomain.com.au]
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 5:28 PM
To: Suhaib Siddiqi; cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Keyboard Prob
Suhab,
Sagar used Harold's Test7 and it worked.....
Rob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com>
To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 9:13 AM
Subject: RE: Keyboard Prob
>
> Win9x and Me are out of luck for now.
>
> Sorry
> Suhaib
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sagar R. Shah [mailto:Sagar.Shah@sid.cam.ac.uk]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 5:09 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: RE: Keyboard Prob
>
>
> Hello Everybody
>
> I joined the list a couple of days ago, and had a crack at installing the
> directX xfree86/cygwin test7 server on my Win98 machine
> yesterday. (Win98SE, Dell Inspiron 7000 laptop, ATI Rage Mobility
graphics
> card)
>
> It took a while, but eventually I got everything going quite well [well
good
> for win98 anyway]
>
> I got those keyboard errors, or crashes as I called them too. So I started
> going through the mailing list archives and found a thread starting with
the
> following message:
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2000-q4/msg00599.html
>
>
> This seemed to lay the blame (possibly) on rgb.txt
> I had this file, but was still getting the error
> .....[blah blah blah]
> to cut a long story short things started not crashing when I installed:
>
> xfree86-4.0-devel.tar.bz2
>
> the rgb.txt from this was identical to the one I had before, so I can only
> guess that something else that this provided (or replaced) fixed the
> problem.
>
> WARNING: people on Win98 will need to reapply (or pre-save) XWin.exe and
> xf_dx.dll, as the tar will overwrite the test7 versions with some other
> versions.
>
> I just thought I'd share my experiance, just in case it helps someone
else,
> obviously this isn't a proper explanation of why the problem was occuring
in
> the first place.
>
> I then went on the edit the startx shell script that the above archive
> placed in /usr/X11R6/bin/. I also created an xinitrc file in
> /etc/X11/xinit/. And the result is that I can how start the Xserver nicely
> from typing startx at a normal Cygwin (ie. command prompt) window. [and I
> can also exit the x-server with out it crashing]. If anyone is interested
I
> can share further details on this.
>
> What this leads me to ask is why is startx not included in the normal
> binaries? (ie. why does someone need to install the devel one too?).
> I can see the point of startxwin.bat, it lets you start the xserver
without
> having a cygwin window up before hand, but it still uses (at least) one
> empty window. The nice thing about startx and xinitrc is that at least it
is
> more standard, in the sense that we don't have to start xterms etc from a
> DOS batch file etc, and it matches linux implementations a little (i
think,
> not that I know anything about linux).
>
> I also have a nice Xmodmap file, that gives 'proper' (or at least less
> wrong) keyboard key bindings for UK Keyboards. [again give us a shout if u
> want it]
>
> cya
>
> Sagar
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Sagar R. Shah www: http://www.netnexus.co.uk/
> Sidney Sussex College ICQ: 34249234
> Cambridge, CB2 3HU
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, John T. Stonick wrote:
> > [snip]
> > Then when I type anything I get the following messages added to the
popup
> > window.
> >
> > 0 [main] xterm 513267 handle_exceptions: Exception:
> STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
> > 4748 [main] xterm 513267 stackdump: Dumping stack trace to
> > XTERM.EXE.stackdump
> >
> > BTW, I am using win98 on a Compaq armada M700 and I am using the
standard
> > startxwin.bat file. I am using a standard 101 key English keyboard.
>
>