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  • From: bebo DEMENCIA <beboblack AT gmail.com>
  • To: sm-users AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Users] xfree86 problem
  • Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 17:29:44 -0400

root@mafia:~# chmod 755 /var/
root@mafia:~# chmod 6666 /var/tmp/
root@mafia:~# ls -lahd /var
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 133 Oct 21 10:59 /var
root@mafia:~# ls -lahd /var/tmp
drwSrwSrw- 3 root root 26 Oct 10 12:05 /var/tmp
root@mafia:~#

/var/tmp is incorrect.. btw i do use xfree86, check my /etx/X11/XF86Config

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
EndSection




On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:31:05 -0700, Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us> wrote:
> Quoting bebo DEMENCIA <beboblack AT gmail.com>:
>
>
> > this happen when i do: startx.. im using fluxbox, my X is ok but whats
> > the problems with the KEYBOARD and thos fonts..? any idea..
> >
> > (WW) SAVAGE(0): Failed to set up write-combining range
> > (0xd0000000,0x1000000)
> > The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> > > Error: Cannot open "/var/tmp/server-0.xkm" to write keyboard description
> > > Exiting
> > (EE) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap
> > Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/,
> > removing from list!
> > Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/,
> > removing from list!
>
> Make sure /var is 755 and /var/tmp is 6666.
>
> $ ls -lahd /var
> drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 512 2004-10-12 11:24 /var
>
> $ ls -lahd /var/tmp
> drw-rw-rw- 3 root root 80 2004-10-11 12:44 /var/tmp
>
> Also make sure your driver for the keyboard in your X config file is set
> correctly. For xorg it's "kbd", for xfree86 I believe it's "Keyboard".
>
> -sandalle
>
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