From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jorge R . Csapo" Subject: Re: XFree86 and locales - SOLVED Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 17:11:25 -0300 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20020520171124.A1465@completo.com.br> References: <20020520110920.A1921@completo.com.br> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020520110920.A1921@completo.com.br>; from jorge@completo.com.br on Mon, May 20, 2002 at 11:09:21AM -0300 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: "Jorge R . Csapo" , linux-admin@vger.kernel.org OK, this is what I did: 1. reinstall the xbin tarball 2. run X as root 3. close X 4. login as user 5. run X This is black magic, I know, and at this point I don't care to understa= nd what happened. I'm just glad my system is working again. Why am I posting an answer to my own question, do you ask? Because it w= ill end up in archives and next time when I search for a solution to this p= roblem again I will find it :) Jorge assim falou Jorge R . Csapo (em 20/05/2002): > Hi all, >=20 > I have a Slackware 8.0 box in which I had to downgrade XFree to 3.6, = because > 4.0.1 doesn t support very well my cl-gd5434 video card. When I first= installed > 3.6, everything worked fine. Then I had to reboot and since then when= ever I > start X (with gnome+enlightenment) I get multiple messages like this: >=20 > Gdk-WARNING **: locale not suported by Xlib, locale set to C > Gdk-WARNING **: can not set locale modifiers >=20 > I checked that I do have the XFree locales installed. >=20 > The symptom I get is that X doesn t seem to have the fonts I need to = use > Portuguese accents. I don t really know if that is related to the loc= ale > problem, but both things started at the same time. >=20 > The way I usually configure accents is, I load the us-acentos.map.gz= and > then disable Xkb in XFree86. I have been using that in a number of sy= stems > for over a year without a problem. >=20 > Can anybody help? >=20 > TIA >=20 > --=20 > Jorge R. Csapo >=20 > -------------------------------------------------- > /"\ > \ /=FF CAMPANHA DA FITA ASCII - CONTRA MAIL HTML > X=FF=FF ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN - AGAINST HTML MAIL > / \ > -------------------------------------------------- > Jorge R. Csapo > http://www.completo.com.br/~jorge > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > With a PC, I always felt limited > by the software available. > On Unix, I am limited only by my knowledge.=20 > --Peter J. Schoenster > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin= " in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html --=20 Jorge R. Csapo -------------------------------------------------- /"\ \ /=FF CAMPANHA DA FITA ASCII - CONTRA MAIL HTML X=FF=FF ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN - AGAINST HTML MAIL / \ -------------------------------------------------- Jorge R. Csapo http://www.completo.com.br/~jorge =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D With a PC, I always felt limited by the software available. On Unix, I am limited only by my knowledge.=20 --Peter J. Schoenster - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" = in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html