Subject: Re: 1.4ALPHA feedback
To: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 04/20/1999 10:30:14
On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Curt Sampson wrote:

> > 	xdm:
> > 	    The X server needs -kb on the end of the Xservers line for
> > 	    autorepeat to work. Presumably xinit needs a similar
> > 	    workaround. 
> 
> Ah, so this is where my key repeat went! Do you have any further
> information on this? Like what the XKEYBOARD extension does, and
> why key repeat is broken with it present? (I'm not terribly clueful
> about X, sorry.)
> 
	I'm totally in the dark as to what is going on. Maybe we should
	just set xsrc to disable XKEYBOARD for 1.4?

> > 	install-floppy:
> > 	    Fails due to missing 'sleep', 'egrep' and others.
> > 	    Is sysinst being considered for 1.4?
> 
> The egrep thing should be fixed soon. But as far as sysinst goes,
> someone's going to have to take some ownership of it on the sparc
> if it's ever going to go anywhere. Though I've hacked on it to make
> it compile, I don't use sysinst at all myself.

	If I get a spare time bonus in the next week or so I might take
	a look :)

		David/absolute

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