Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 19:35:06 +0000 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xorg-server anyone? Message-ID: <20040908193506.GC66994@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20040901015659.A9948@newtrinity.zeist.de> References: <20040901015659.A9948@newtrinity.zeist.de>
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On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 01:56:59AM +0200, Marius Strobl wrote: > > Hi, > > is anyone successfully running x11-servers/xorg-server 6.7 on sparc64? > I ask because the keyboard doesn't work under X, most keys are off by > one, e.g. if you press 'd' you get a 'f', and some keys, don't work at > all. I have a patch which fixes this but what really puzzles me is that > while the code obviously can't work it didn't change in a while and is > essentially the same as it was in XFree86-Server-4.3.x and these had no > such problems. It also doesn't look like the XFree86-Server ports ever > had a patch which would address this. > Is someone running XFree86-Server-4.4.0 on sparc64? XFree86 had this problem (it was related to a hard-coded assumption of PC-style keyboard in one of the binaries). There was a patch submitted and incorporated that fixed it, but perhaps it still needs to be patched in x-org. Check the CVS history for the XFree86-Server port. Kris
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