Re: Problems after xorg patch to 5.0_STABLE

[Geert Hendrickx <ghen%telenet.be@localhost>]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 06:08:43PM -0400, Steven Bellovin wrote:
> 
> On Sep 21, 2009, at 5:50 PM, Jukka Salmi wrote:
> 
> >Rafal Boni --> port-i386 (2009-09-21 17:22:13 -0400):
> >>On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 12:44:35PM -0700, Soren Jacobsen wrote:
> >>>On Sep 21, 2009, at 12:14 PM, Jukka Salmi wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>However, I removed the directory in question and extracted the set
> >>>>again, but the screen still goes black as soon as Xorg is running.
> >>>
> >>>Sadly, this is expected.  See PR xsrc/41870.  I am very tempted to
> >>>change our X server back to the old behavior of installing a default
> >>>cursor immediately and painting the background to that horrible
> >>>horrible eye-killing pattern.  Much as I hate that default
> >>>background,
> >>>black with no cursor is all kinds of wrong.
> >>
> >>Yeah, too many people's reaction to the black screeen w/no cursor has
> >>been "OMG, it's fuxored" (including mine, even now occasionally).  We
> >>should go back to the damn grey stipled screen; it's not like it
> >>can't
> >>be changed by whatever eye-candy is running on top of X as soon as it
> >>starts.
> >
> >I don't think that was the problem I was seeing.  Unless a side effect
> >is that you're not able to shut down the X server anymore... ;-)
> >
> >With the 1.6.3 server, Ctrl+Alt+Backspace did not work, only sending a
> >SIGKILL to the server (by a user logged in over the network)
> >worked, but
> >left the screen garbled until the system was restarted.  And blindly
> >typing `shutdown -r now' or pressing the power button to trigger a
> >shutdown by powerd(8) did not work as well.
> >
> >In the meantime I've extracted the old sets to make Xorg (server
> >1.4.2)
> >is usable again...
> >
> There's a problem I'm having with -current; I wonder if it's related
> to the "can't exit" part of this.
> 
> For some reason, when I fire up recent versions of X, it doesn't
> seem to know the names of any keys.  This means that assorted
> keyboard accelerators in my window manager (pkgsrc/wm/fvwm) don't
> work.  xmodmap seems to fail to destroy any concept of the caps lock
> key's existence, I believe because I can't name it.  If, though, I
> run xmodmap manually and do an fvwm Restart, all is happy at that
> level.
> 
> No, I don't know why.  I'm getting ready to send-pr on this and a
> few other issues...
> 

Jukka, Steven,

does the problem go away for you if you:

ln -s /usr/X11R7/lib/X11/xkb /var/db/xkb

This is apparantly the default path for xkbcomp in the newer xorg-server.

I think we should explicitly set XKM_OUTPUT_DIR to the old path under /usr
in xsrc/external/mit/xorg-server/include/xkb-config.h?


        Geert


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