From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 2 14:59:25 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E078D16A4DC for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 14:59:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from atlasta.net (wow.atlasta.net [12.129.13.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 273B343FE0 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 14:59:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drais@wow.atlasta.net) Received: (qmail 46089 invoked by uid 1068); 2 Oct 2003 21:59:24 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 2 Oct 2003 21:59:24 -0000 Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 14:59:24 -0700 (PDT) From: David Raistrick To: william@palfreman.com, "" Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: RE: XFree86 changes resolution per keypress X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 21:59:26 -0000 On Thu May 1 10:36:09 PDT 2003, in http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2003-May/004563.html William Palfreman wrote: > I've just upgraded from XFree86 4.2.0 to 4.3.0 using portupgrade. It > was working fine as 4.2.0, but now it cycles though the different > resolutions every time I press a key - any key. How on earth did this > happen? It is the same with the old configuration file or with a new > one made by XFree86 -configure. Folks, I just encountered this same thing this morning. I found no posted answer to Williams problem, so I'm posting this: Check to see if: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB Exists. In my case, it did not. I manually copied it from the ports source tree: cp /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-documents/work/xc/lib/X11/XKeysymDB \ /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ And the next time I started X, the keyboard behaved! I found the idea here: http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com/msg06702.html Note that I used portupgrade to upgrade to 4.3.0. I don't know why this file didn't get installed. I'm not subscribed to questions@, so please cc: me on any replies. ...david --- david raistrick drais@atlasta.net http://www.expita.com/nomime.html