On Jan 1,  9:36pm, Markus Baeurle wrote:
> Subject: Re: New FAQ
> Hello Amit!
>
> In message <Pine.HPP.3.95L.961231163834.27198A-100000@club.eng.cam.ac.uk>
>           Amit Gupta <93akg@eng.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> > 11) The list of X bugs is also probably out-of-date; for example, it
> > claims that Xarm-mono dosen't work with most kernels. Any chance of an
> > up-to-date list, please ? At the very least, maybe someone can try out the
> > current bug-list and see whether any of them have been fixed ?
>
> Well I'm not sure if "VT switching does not work properly on many
combinations
> of Xarm and RiscBSD kernel versions" still applies. At least I don't suffer
> from that any more, but had this rather a long time ago.
> This doesn't necessarily mean that nobody is getting this problem though.
> The "ALT key getting stuck" problem is still very present, I get almost every
> time I switch to a virtual terminal and back. It explains most odd effects.
> The third problem mentioned is that of several characters being entered at
once
> and this is also not dead. I even had (in rare cases) the situation that keys
> got stuck completely.

This last one is a problem with the console code.... which I am in the process
of rewriting. Yet another race condition :-(

Cheers

Rob