From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 25 13:24:14 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B32C106564A for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:24:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhellenthal@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f182.google.com (mail-qy0-f182.google.com [209.85.216.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BE788FC16 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:24:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk4 with SMTP id 4so564376qyk.13 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 06:24:13 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:sender:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=0yoXydg+cUDU1gSFzTHlc4b2orwqLTD1ytsy8zK9oxA=; b=oxSe89F9NUVDDl0qkKkGsHooIuGRyAeeqd16eebWMccOVigHk2g+g2+e7s4Ka9+VdV D4YvW2xoiljLb3G/3TIrBlLgxLfXFRTpx+i2+56XDb+Xe2MNFvGOplQ8oqtOydIm5ZLX BsvEkABIVq79duGiP3Dzfm4I8wzUgxgGPEbAY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=WBC7lIlux0zfQu0VEtygcRQ8UY2p7y02VTc3qdpkR/CWWJYmjQYoVtJhFAWs/lDpYs yrhIQfWrWjw2ONNLJ6wn9WNL0ketQeC2rjYILqQbSE97d7nrWYSj2ZyFxrzPkcETaSCl uYbMGDzWY0kXSM4Jt6TEdbqDrCDp2Rp3YfBPA= Received: by 10.224.97.233 with SMTP id m41mr5558830qan.221.1282742653325; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 06:24:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from centel.dataix.local (adsl-99-181-132-33.dsl.klmzmi.sbcglobal.net [99.181.132.33]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id t18sm1531767qco.44.2010.08.25.06.24.11 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 25 Aug 2010 06:24:12 -0700 (PDT) Sender: "J. Hellenthal" Message-ID: <4C75197A.3040106@DataIX.net> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:24:10 -0400 From: jhell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100806 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions References: <20100825113834.GA55637@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu> In-Reply-To: <20100825113834.GA55637@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: serious (for me) Xorg 7.5 mouse/kbd problem in 8.1-STABLE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:24:14 -0000 On 08/25/2010 07:38, William Bulley wrote: > For years I have run Open-Motif on FreeBSD without issue. > > I use a USB keyboard and a USB three button mouse attached to a Dell > Optiplex 960. This combination has worked fine for the past year. > > This week I upgraded from 8.0-STABLE circa January 2010 to 8.1-STABLE. > I do this by doing a buildworld/installworld sequence after csup-ing > stable-supfile and rebooting. In this case I also pkg_deleted all of > my ports and am rebuilding them from source. Building Xorg is one of > the very first ports I attempt since I prefer to work in xterms not > virtual terminals. > > This upgrade moved me from Xorg 7.3 to Xorg 7.5, but Open-Motif stayed > the same - open-motif-2.2.3_6 - it hasn't changed in years. > > After building Xorg, as root, I ran the "Xorg -configure" command to > generate my xorg.conf.new file. Since a working /etc/X11/xorg.conf > file was still around after the upgrade from 8.0-STABLE/Xorg 7.3, I > felt no need to change anything in that file (later file comparisons > confirmed that nothing had changed). > > My only relevant additions to /etc/X11/xorg.conf are these: > > Section "ServerFlags" > Option "AutoAddDevices" "off" > Option "DontZap" "false" > EndSection > > In my /etc/rc.conf file I have dbus and hald enabled, and that has > not changed since the beginning of 2010 after the confusion abated. > > As a normal user, I start Xorg using /usr/local/bin/xinit as always. > I have several xterms configured in my ~/.xinitrc file. All those > came up in the correct location and state. I was able to open those > that started in iconic mode. In an open/raised xterm I could enter > carriage returns and see my shell prompt move down the window. But > when I tried to close/minimize an open/raised xterm, things failed. > > I use the following keyboard/mouse combination (configured in my > .mwmrc file) to close (minimize) an xterm (and other applications): > > Shift window f.minimize > > This is also unchanged for some years. This particular setting has > no bearing on the problem I came across yesterday. I merely state > it for the record. However, this configuration triggers the "bug". > > The problem is as soon as I use that Shift/Btn3Click combination, > my arrow cursor disappears, then I cannot move to or select other > xterms - I am frozen, or locked, into the xterm I was trying to > close/minimize. All I can do at this point is to kill(1) the > /usr/local/bin/xinit command to return to the virtual terminal > where I launched my Xorg session. > > I am now reluctantly using the good old /usr/local/bin/twm which > is always built when Xorg is built from source. I am at a loss > as to what to look for next. I suspect Xorg, or the keyboard and > mouse driver, not the video driver, that came with. It might be > a problem with hald(8), but again, I don't know how to debug this. > > Any help with this very odd bug would be greatly appreciated. > > Regards, > > web... > > -- > William Bulley Email: web@umich.edu > > 72 characters width template ----------------------------------------->| > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Though I can't really help you with the mouse disapearing I can say if you wish to modify you key-map to allow ctrl+alt+bksp you can add this to your .xinitrc ( setxkbmap -option "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" ) Regards & Good luck, -- jhell,v