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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Path: sparky!uunet!lotus!lotus!jkh
- From: jkh@esel.lotus.com (Jordan K Hubbard)
- Subject: CODRV EXPERIENCES [was Re: XFree86 problems (keyboard hangs overnight)]
- In-Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de's message of 13 Nov 92 15:58:57 GMT
- Message-ID: <JKH.92Nov16095746@esel.lotus.com>
- Sender: news@lotus.com
- Organization: Lotus Ireland
- References: <BxM1qt.2xC@unx.sas.com> <STARK.92Nov12154408@sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu>
- <veit.721670337@du9ds3>
- Distribution: comp
- Date: 16 Nov 92 09:57:46
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- I am becoming quite tired now to to say that all of this is covered by "codrv".
- Get the keycap-0.1.1.tar.Z stuff from ftp.uni-duisburg.de (134.91.100.14).
- Read README*, FAQ.ddmmyy, and BUGLIST.ddmmyy there.
-
- Actually, in an attempt to be somewhat fair (after jumping all over
- Herr Dr. Veit for suggesting that hacking the pccons driver was a
- complete waste of time), I installed the keycap stuff over the
- weekend. This is what I encountered:
-
- The instructions assume you don't have anything at major 0x0F - this
- is obviously not going to be the case for everyone, so bias the
- instructions accordingly.
-
- codrv, as distributed, does not seem to compile on its own. You need
- to grab pcmmap() from pccons.c in order to get the kernel to link. I
- haven't checked to see if it's ever called, but I doubt it is.
-
- Everything seems to work as far as the console driver is concerned,
- but I was unable to get the Xfree86 1.1 driver to work at all. I
- applied all the 1.1 patches (successfully) and recompiled the server
- to codrv support enabled, but got 'unable to map /dev/vga' upon
- running it (with the server suid root, of course). I didn't
- have time to debug it, so I've switched back to the old pccons
- driver (with my hacks) for now.
-
- Perhaps when the X11 support is more functional I'll go back to it.
- Has anyone gotten this to work?
-