Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:01:28 -0500 From: Coleman Kane <cokane@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-x11 <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org> Subject: Fix regarding the recent XKB changes in freedesktop.org head Message-ID: <1234206088.44207.7.camel@localhost>
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--=-1iFvoN5ZYv1Ps2RuD2hs Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello, So I recently spent random free-time bits on becoming impatient waiting for the freedesktop.org maintainers to bring the head of xf86-input-keyboard up-to-date with the head of xorg-server. This applies only to those select few that, for one reason or another, are tracking the head of the freedesktop.org git repositories for xorg-server, libXi, xf86-input-keyboard, and the like. Numerous xorg-server changes were committed which are intermediate steps in an XKB overhaul, AFAICT. It seems that some people with limited time have not been able to keep their trees in sync. This has caused widespread breakage of the core X.org system since around Jan 21st. After much searching, I finally found that there is indeed a fix to this which seems to work for me right here: * http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D19724 You may come across a "kbd-pass-the-absinthe.diff" patch which is supposed to fix this mess (from Daniel Stone). When I tried using that one, all of my key mappings were messed up, and key-repeat stopped working properly (and also didn't "not work" properly either). The patch posted to the fd.o bug above works much better for me on FreeBSD-current. I wanted to share this knowledge with anyone else who might be stuck in last month's sources due to this bug. --=20 Coleman Kane --=-1iFvoN5ZYv1Ps2RuD2hs Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkmQfYMACgkQcMSxQcXat5f57ACeNCSe9AI8IRr8sgmkKqyTxwYE Xd4An1dzai8k7UfLGpJUzOl3FBV7GrUF =WVpl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-1iFvoN5ZYv1Ps2RuD2hs--
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