Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 22:23:28 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: International keyboard and modem problem Message-ID: <19991227222328.P1290@marder-1>
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I've forwarded this to -questions as it seems to be KDE-specific and I
don't know KDE too well.
Hopefully someone else can jump in here and help.
Thanks.
----- Forwarded message from "E. Hakan Duran" <hakan_duran@hotmail.com> -----
From: "E. Hakan Duran" <hakan_duran@hotmail.com>
To: "Mark Ovens" <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
Subject: International keyboard and modem problem
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 1999 22:58:44 +0200
Hi Mark!
You have helped me on a Goldstar CD-ROM problem (the system did not
recognize it) a couple of weeks ago. By your suggestions, I've managed to
solve the problem. I connected it to the middle port of the first IDE as
slave and the problem was over!
Since then I had time to install kde 1.1.2 package which is much familiar to
a person like me who is quite accustommed to Windows environment and
configured my "own" kernel with a splash screen (even in VESA mode!), also
configured my sound card. It is quite amazing to be able to build a kernel
and watch the compilation process even though I don't understand much of it.
Now I have some more problems which I hesitated to share with
"FreeBSD-questions" because I think those problems should be discussed
before. I searched for the topics in www and mail archives but I could not
find a practical explanation. Now I decided to ask to you, if you do not
mind.
1. I set Turkish keyboard as the first choice in kde. But everytime I
logout of kde, I see several lines reporting error about the keyboard:
"KiKbd: X11 error: BadWindow (Invaild window parameter). Am I doing
something wrong or deficient?
2. I have a modem (Wisecom) capable of 56000 bps data transfer. It is on
Com 4 (sio3, cuua3) with an irq 3. I compiled the kernel with the line:
"device sio3 at isa? port ....... tty irq3 vector siointr"
Then I ran kppp, added a new account. First, modem could not be
initialized. I changed the line return option from "CR" to "LF", then to
"CR/LF" and overcame the problem. Then modem dialled the number of ISP, I
could hear the modems handshaking while "expecting CONNECT" was written in
log window, everything arrested again. So far, I have never been able to
establish a connection even though I can HEAR a successful handshaking. I
changed various parameters including chap, pap, script-based, and connection
speed but I could not establish a real coonection. Furthermore, I noticed
that everytime I logout and relogin kde, line return option of kde should be
manipulated as mentioned above to get a response from the modem. I also
noticed an error massage after login out kde reporting "Date+Time /kernel:
sio3: 1 more silo overflow (total n). I can easily get connected to my ISPs
(I have currently 3) by windows dial-up without any script, just by userID
and password written in the dialog.
3. In one of the literature I read, there is a line to add to .xinitrc file
for kde:
"setenv KDEDIR /usr/local" I wrote it down like this:
"setenv /usr/local/bin" where my kde is installed. But there is also an
error message reporting "setenv: not found" while starting X. I think I
made something wrong.
4 (and the last). I can not run xdm. If I do it, the system halts after a
short interval of X session. I know I should prepare an .xsession file, but
I don't know where to and how to prepare it.
Thank you very much for your patience.
Hakan
----- End forwarded message -----
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