Subject: Re: KDE 3.4.0 working?
To: Dave Tyson <Dave.Tyson@liverpool.ac.uk>
From: Davide Zanon <d.zanon@ininito.it>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/11/2005 13:07:06
On Monday 11 April 2005 12:52, Dave Tyson wrote:
> On Monday 11 April 2005 13:27, Mark Weinem wrote
>
> I have also found a few problems using kdm with kde3.4 on 2.0.2/i386. I
> think the issues are also in kde3.2/3 as well
>
> If kdm is started up from rc.d on bootup then I have sometimes found that
> the keyboard is completely unresponsive although the mouse works OK.  Even
> shift+alt+f1 etc doesn't work. This doesn't happen if kdm is started
> manually from root after the system has booted up completely.
>
> Another problem seen regularly with kde invoked from kdm is a flood of X
> events which look like a key is being held down (when it isn't).  This can
> be triggered by opening up a Konsole window, editting a file and pressing a
> cursor key a few times to move down the file. The symptoms are like the
> auto key repeat code goes into overdrive and the resulting events
> completely overwhelm the system.  This problem does not happen with kde
> invoked from startx. Is anyone seeing this sort of issue?
>
> Cheers,
> Dave

Could this be related to
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-bugs/2005/03/29/0051.html
? I don't know, but I hope this helps :)

david