Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 16:51:21 -0500
From: Chris Shenton <chris@shenton.org>
To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>, Ed Schouten <ed@fxq.nl>, Mike Harding <mvh@ix.netcom.com>
Cc: x11@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: problems after xorg 7.3 upgrade ('b', 'n' keys don't work)
Message-ID: <86bqa9n0h2.fsf@Bacalao.shenton.org>
In-Reply-To: <18160.5183.441679.972989@jerusalem.litteratus.org> (Robert Huff's message of "Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:09:03 -0400")
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Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> writes:
> After what I had thought was a successful upgrade from 7.2 over
> the weekend, xorg 7.3 is having major problems.
> The basic problems are:
> a) the keyboard. Some keys ('e', 'n', 'b', 'm', and others)
> register randomly; others work in some combinations but not others.
> For example: <up arrow>/<down arrow> + <left Ctl> works correctly,
> while <up arrow>/<down arrow> + <right Ctl> has no effect.
Mike Harding and Ed Schouten and I reported the same problem. Ed
describes it well at:
http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-Wanted---pointers-re-where-to-look-for-keyboard-bug.-tf4622905.html#a13202110
The other day I tried it on a diskless system I have in the kitchen --
it mounts the same Xorg and filesystem and so on from my main
server... and it worked like a charm. So Xorg is not completely broken,
it's something else: hardware, driver, config? I had switched keyboards
on the ailing system before so didn't suspect that.
Today, I removed the Xorg config file for the problematic system
(xorg.conf.MyHostname) and used xorgconfig to create a new one in
/etc/X11/, which worked fine. I merged in some of my old configs.
But what I noticed I could NOT do was something I was told to use in
xorg to allow VT switching by Ctl-Alt-Fn:
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "DontVTSwitch" "false"
Option "XkbDisable" "true"
EndSection
I can still specify the first Option, but it does nothing: I cannot
switch VTs -- key sequences are sent to the X11 client app.
If I try to use the second Option, then I get the broken keys, repeat,
and other defects. So I've commented out this line.
At least now I can use 7.3: I'll trade working keys for broken VT switching.
I don't know if this can be addressed with xkeyboard-config (in ports,
but not installed in my system) or not.
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