[comp.unix.sysv386] Olwm woes using Roell's X386

glenn@suphys.physics.su.OZ.AU (Glenn Geers) (03/31/91)

I've just installed X386 on my ESIX box (8 Mb, Tseng Labs SVGA, NEC 3D,
125 MB RLL, 209 MB SCSI) and I'm having a problem with programs that are
associated with olwm (which I prefer because I use it on SUN's as well).
Whenever I attempt to start a cmdtool, shelltool or spider (there may be 
others) from the command line I receive the following error message:

X error of failed request: Bad Value (integer parameter out of range for
operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 118 (X_SetModifierMapping)
Minor opcode of failed request: 0
Resource id in failed request: 0x70
Serial number of failed request: 15
Current serial number in output stream: 15

If I try to start these apps from a menu I get no messages but they still won't
start. What gives? Any help would be much appreciated.

BTW All other apps work ok. X386 is very fast. Great work.

Thanks in advance,
	Glenn


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tmh@prosun.first.gmd.de (Thomas Hoberg) (04/01/91)

In article <1991Mar30.210251.18089@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU>, glenn@suphys.physics.su.OZ.AU (Glenn Geers) writes:
|> I've just installed X386 on my ESIX box (8 Mb, Tseng Labs SVGA, NEC 3D,
|> 125 MB RLL, 209 MB SCSI) and I'm having a problem with programs that are
|> associated with olwm (which I prefer because I use it on SUN's as well).
|> Whenever I attempt to start a cmdtool, shelltool or spider (there may be 
|> others) from the command line I receive the following error message:
|> 
|> X error of failed request: Bad Value (integer parameter out of range for
|> operation)
|> Major opcode of failed request: 118 (X_SetModifierMapping)
|> Minor opcode of failed request: 0
|> Resource id in failed request: 0x70
|> Serial number of failed request: 15
|> Current serial number in output stream: 15
|> 
|> If I try to start these apps from a menu I get no messages but they still won't
|> start. What gives? Any help would be much appreciated.
|>
I have had the same problem with a X386.1.1a that I compiled from the sources.
The X386.1.1 server that came in that binary distribution worked just fine.
I don't like the keyboard mapping X386 does very much anyway. On my 84-key
keyboard (I really *hate* those 101/102 things and hope mine never breaks) at
least the HOME end END keys produce the same code (ESC-O). The "main" keys are
taken from the current keyboard map, so I can put umlauts etc. there, but 
function keys and the keypad are overridden somewhere. Haven't looked at it
closely yet. 
|> BTW All other apps work ok. X386 is very fast. Great work.
|> 
It's a *lot* better than those so called 'commercial' releases.
|> Thanks in advance,
|> 	Glenn
|> 
|> 
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|> ___________________________________________________________________________
|> Glenn Geers                       | "So when it's over, 
|>                                   |  we're back to people.
|> Department of Theoretical Physics |  Just to prove that human touch
|> The University of Sydney          |  can have no equal."
|> Sydney NSW 2006 Australia         |  - Basia Trzetrzelewska, 'Prime Time TV'
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|> Phone: +61 2 692-3241 (voice)     |_________________________________________
|>        +61 2 660-2903 (fax)       |
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