From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 26 23:19:58 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90FF6106564A for ; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:19:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lhecking@users.sourceforge.net) Received: from ns1.cypress.com (ns1.cypress.com [157.95.67.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BD018FC13 for ; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:19:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lhecking@users.sourceforge.net) Received: from corpmail.cypress.com (corpmail [157.95.1.2]) by ns1.cypress.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id n1QMrKwf017214 for ; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:53:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from cork.irdesign.cypress.com (cork.irdesign.cypress.com [157.95.24.1]) by corpmail.cypress.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id n1QMrCdL005552 for ; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:53:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from cork.irdesign.cypress.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cork.irdesign.cypress.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5C514E366 for ; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:53:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: by cork.irdesign.cypress.com (Postfix, from userid 0) id C01544E49C; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:53:11 +0000 (GMT) From: lhecking@users.sourceforge.net To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline X-Mutt-References: Message-Id: <20090226225311.C01544E49C@cork.irdesign.cypress.com> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:53:11 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Xorg 7.4 keyboard/terminal problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:19:58 -0000 I decided to give Xorg 7.4 another go and I'm getting a bit further now than a few weeks ago. Not needing an xorg.conf file is nice, but I suppose it is still needed if one wants to use xfs or the nvidia driver. The nvidia driver (180.29) makes the system near unusable. While X runs and the familiar gnome desktop pops up after login, gnome-terminal doesn't run, and I didn't try any other apps then: The program 'gnome-terminal' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadName (named color or font does not exist)'. (Details: serial 275 error_code 15 request_code 45 minor_code 0) (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it. To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.) The program 'gnome-session' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The nv driver works a lot better in this regard, but there are a few interesting features: none of the diacritics (accent characters) work as expected, even though X+hal seem to figure out that I have a "gb" keyboard. Many of these keys need two keypresses for some character to appear, and it's not necessarily what I expect. Backtic, caret and tilde ` ^ ~ need two keypresses to appear. Pressing the UK pound sign ? key onces creates a literal "\c2\a3". Single and double quote ' " need two keypresses and they create a literal "\c2\b4" and "\c2\a8", resp. (not sure about the exact hex values as they are represented differently on the Linux system I'm typing this on). FreeBSD 7.1, current ports, gnome 2.24.