From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 16 18:13:23 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C339B106564A for ; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:13:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from news@citylink.dinoex.sub.org) Received: from uucp.dinoex.sub.de (uucp.dinoex.sub.de [194.45.71.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 112868FC1A for ; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:13:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from news@citylink.dinoex.sub.org) Received: from uucp.dinoex.sub.de (uucp@uucp.dinoex.sub.de [194.45.71.2] (may be forged)) by uucp.dinoex.sub.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n3GIDGAx070584 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:13:17 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from news@citylink.dinoex.sub.org) X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: Received: from citylink.dinoex.sub.org (uucp@localhost) by uucp.dinoex.sub.de (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) with UUCP id n3GIDGgB070583 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:13:16 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from news@citylink.dinoex.sub.org) Received: from gate.oper.dinoex.org (gate-e [192.168.98.2]) by citylink.dinoex.sub.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n3GHEExk072890 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:14:14 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from news@gate.oper.dinoex.org) Received: from gate.oper.dinoex.org (gate-e [192.168.98.2]) by gate.oper.dinoex.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n3GHE5uR072810 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:14:05 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from news@gate.oper.dinoex.org) Received: (from news@localhost) by gate.oper.dinoex.org (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id n3GHE4W3072809 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:14:04 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from news) From: pmc@citylink.dinoex.sub.org (Peter Much) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:32:09 GMT Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Organization: dread of the bookshelf X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Sender: To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Milter: Spamilter (Reciever: uucp.dinoex.sub.de; Sender-ip: 194.45.71.2; Sender-helo: uucp.dinoex.sub.de; ) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (uucp.dinoex.sub.de [194.45.71.2]); Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:13:17 +0200 (CEST) Cc: Subject: 7.2-PRE: switch virtual console drops crazy characters into X X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:13:24 -0000 Hi all, to make a long story short, I got trapped in the Xorg upgrade problems (concerning HAL etc.) that were widely reported during January. After reading thru the material I figured out that there are not much chances that somebody would take effort and fix these things for a 6.3 Release. So I decided to give it a try with the 7.2-PRERELASE. And, well, after recompiling all the stuff, the problems seem gone so far. Only one strange thing has appeared: Every time I switch from X to a virtual console and back, I get some characters dropped into my command-line in the X window, and have to delete them with the backspace key. These characters read: ^[[20~ Now this is exactly the escape sequence on the F9 key (where the X runs), if it were pressed without Ctrl-Alt. That shouldn't happen. Now the funny thing is: this does only happen when booting the GENERIC kernel. When I boot my normal custom made kernel, it does not happen. Now this is strange. Usually the GENERIC kernel should show the least unexpected behaviour. Alright, there are lots and lots of devices left out of my custom kernel, but I do not see anything that could have to do with VT switching. I do not quite understand it. But I am also not so much bored that I would start trying out options and building kernels so to find what makes this happen. So, if anyone experiences the similar thing, and is enough annoyed to do something about it, I will happily send a diff from my kernel configs. rgds, PMc