Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 09:10:24 -0700 From: "Jon Loeliger" <jdl@vivato.net> To: "Alexander Leidinger" <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Bad X Port? Message-ID: <D8B86D9BB607124BA1D54EDB7944DB0B0157D173@exchange.mabuhay>
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> Jon Loeliger schrieb: >=20 > > Yes, I've googled and searched the mail logs and the > > advice I've found there says "Oh, just recompile the > > XFree86-libraries and it'll all be wonderful again!" > > Oh yeah. I've built and rebuilt all sorts of combinations > > of the libraries the servers, the clients, the base > > port, the freetype2 and imake-4's, wrestled with the > > lovely XDM, cvsup'ed with regularity and invariably > > I get a XFree86 3.X server tossed into the mix for no > > good reason somewhere. >=20 > Put XFREE86_VERSION=3D4 into /etc/make.conf and remove the > 3.x version. >=20 > Bye, > Alexander. >=20 Thanks, Alexander. I added the make.conf line as you suggested. I also removed obvious 3.X port directories, but they just re-appeared with the next cvsup. So I moved them out of the way just before the build. I blew away (made clean, made deinstall, etc) all sorts of ports (XFree86-4-*, x11/*, imake-4, freetype2, etc), and apparently successfully rebuilt the whole mess. That's a good start. However, I am still getting the mode-change-on-key-press problem. I can start X via either xdm and get a login screen, or I can be myself and use "startx" which happily fires up all my .xinitrc/.xsession scripted stuff but in a really wrong mode. Any keypress changes it to a much smaller mode (fonts displayed larger). Cltr-Alt-backspace still causes X to quit, though. Things are vaguely sane, given that X seems to fire up a server, listens to the mouse and displays xterms and stuff just fine. So, what information can I provide that will help narrow this problem? A copy of my XF86Config? What's so weird about this is -- see if you've heard this before -- it used to work! With 4.X even. It's just that I tried to install a new Perl port parts and I got caught into the slippery "portupgrade -a" slide and now it is toasted... Thanks, jdl
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