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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