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Re: Problems after xorg patch to 5.0_STABLE




On Oct 1, 2009, at 5:28 AM, Geert Hendrickx wrote:

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

I'll give that a try, though it may not happen for a day or two -- due to other stability issues, I'm not carrying my NetBSD laptop these days.

Thanks.

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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