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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > BL3.3 works fine with JUST exec icewm in .xinitrc.
> > I added
> >
> > rxvt&
> > xmodmap /root/xmodmap.84
>
> You forgot the & at the end of the xmodmap line.
Yes, but I put it into the actual .xinitrc where it worked on one computer 
but not on the other computer.

> > to the existing
> > exec icewm
> >
> > I get to the grey screen with X and the rxvt window
> > without a prompt.
>
> Because there is no & at the end of the xmodmap line.
Even with the & it does not work.  Identical .xinitrc files
from my bl3change.tgz that I pkg'ed.


> > If I remove the xmodmap line too, it works (icewm).
>
> Yup, that's were the problem is.  But you don't have to
> delete the xmodmap line, just put an & at the end.

It works CLI with /usr/X11R6/bin/Xvesa &rxvt -e icewm &rxvt
I can add --screen with the resolution too.  Standard ps/2 mouse.

I will do this one more time for proof but in the meantime I have a third 
reason which implies 'This is not a linux computer'.

1.  'Not an image file' when I boot without Win98X DOS, about 1/3 of the 
time.
2.   This problem with Xvesa and icewm if I add to .xinitrc xmodmap.
3.  Now I tried linux unzip on the other computer where it works fine on 
BL3-32.zip but on this computer it gives bad CRC when run on a file in a 
DOS partition and crashes BL2 when run on a file in a BL2 partitoin.

So both my recent problems are specific to this hardware (not counting the 
one specific to the other hardware where the loop file won't boot with 
Win98 DOS).  I am considering letting Win98 have this computer instead.

Here is what causes problems.

/root/.xinitrc

rxvt&
xmodmap /root/xmodmap.84&
exec icewm

This gives me a grey screen with a big X and I cannot reboot.
If I remark out the rxvt& I get a teal screen with a pointer
and nothing else on it.  The same thing on the other computer gives me 
icewm as expected.

With just your setup (exec icewm) it works fine and I could then probably 
put the xmodmap in an xterm but I just turned off the computer after it 
crashed again.  I am happy with an alias to use the CLI approach.  If you 
like I can do some more experiments.



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> Steven
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