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Date:      Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:24:10 -0400
From:      jhell <jhell@DataIX.net>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: serious (for me) Xorg 7.5 mouse/kbd problem in 8.1-STABLE
Message-ID:  <4C75197A.3040106@DataIX.net>
In-Reply-To: <20100825113834.GA55637@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu>
References:  <20100825113834.GA55637@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu>

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On 08/25/2010 07:38, William Bulley wrote:
> For years I have run Open-Motif on FreeBSD without issue.
> 
> I use a USB keyboard and a USB three button mouse attached to a Dell
> Optiplex 960.  This combination has worked fine for the past year.
> 
> This week I upgraded from 8.0-STABLE circa January 2010 to 8.1-STABLE.
> I do this by doing a buildworld/installworld sequence after csup-ing
> stable-supfile and rebooting.  In this case I also pkg_deleted all of
> my ports and am rebuilding them from source.  Building Xorg is one of
> the very first ports I attempt since I prefer to work in xterms not
> virtual terminals.
> 
> This upgrade moved me from Xorg 7.3 to Xorg 7.5, but Open-Motif stayed
> the same - open-motif-2.2.3_6 - it hasn't changed in years.
> 
> After building Xorg, as root, I ran the "Xorg -configure" command to
> generate my xorg.conf.new file.  Since a working /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> file was still around after the upgrade from 8.0-STABLE/Xorg 7.3, I
> felt no need to change anything in that file (later file comparisons
> confirmed that nothing had changed).
> 
> My only relevant additions to /etc/X11/xorg.conf are these:
> 
>    Section "ServerFlags"
>         Option  "AutoAddDevices" "off"
>         Option  "DontZap" "false"
>    EndSection
> 
> In my /etc/rc.conf file I have dbus and hald enabled, and that has
> not changed since the beginning of 2010 after the confusion abated.
> 
> As a normal user, I start Xorg using /usr/local/bin/xinit as always.
> I have several xterms configured in my ~/.xinitrc file.  All those
> came up in the correct location and state.  I was able to open those
> that started in iconic mode.  In an open/raised xterm I could enter
> carriage returns and see my shell prompt move down the window.  But
> when I tried to close/minimize an open/raised xterm, things failed.
> 
> I use the following keyboard/mouse combination (configured in my
> .mwmrc file) to close (minimize) an xterm (and other applications):
> 
>    Shift   <Btn3Click>     window          f.minimize
> 
> This is also unchanged for some years.  This particular setting has
> no bearing on the problem I came across yesterday.  I merely state
> it for the record.  However, this configuration triggers the "bug".
> 
> The problem is as soon as I use that Shift/Btn3Click combination,
> my arrow cursor disappears, then I cannot move to or select other
> xterms - I am frozen, or locked, into the xterm I was trying to
> close/minimize.  All I can do at this point is to kill(1) the
> /usr/local/bin/xinit command to return to the virtual terminal
> where I launched my Xorg session.
> 
> I am now reluctantly using the good old /usr/local/bin/twm which
> is always built when Xorg is built from source.  I am at a loss
> as to what to look for next.  I suspect Xorg, or the keyboard and
> mouse driver, not the video driver, that came with.  It might be
> a problem with hald(8), but again, I don't know how to debug this.
> 
> Any help with this very odd bug would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> web...
> 
> --
> William Bulley                     Email: web@umich.edu
> 
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Though I can't really help you with the mouse disapearing I can say if
you wish to modify you key-map to allow ctrl+alt+bksp you can add this
to your .xinitrc ( setxkbmap -option "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" )


Regards & Good luck,

-- 

 jhell,v



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