Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 14:22:50 -0500 From: "Michael G. Jung" <mikej@confluenttech.com> To: "Matthias Muthmann" <mmuthmann@gmx.net>, <freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org> Cc: Dejan Lesjak <dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> Subject: RE: Keyboard under X on Ultra10 [was Re: Problems with X..] Message-ID: <9D7F0DF3FB16D41184010050DA90E00001C874EC@neo.confluentasp.local>
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For the record, 6.8.1 only adding patch "patch-kbd sparc 2.c" is what corrected my problem. My slow sparc is busy upgrading xorg to 6.8.2 via "portupgrade -R xorg" and it's at work now so I'll test=20 and report on Monday about 6.8.2 behavior. --mikej p.s. Dejan I had started the portupgrade before receiving=20 your updated message about my ' and " problem. -----Original Message----- From: Matthias Muthmann [mailto:mmuthmann@gmx.net] Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 7:23 AM To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Cc: Dejan Lesjak; Michael G. Jung Subject: Re: Keyboard under X on Ultra10 [was Re: Problems with X..] > Hmm. And there are no files in xorg-server/files directory other then = the ones=20 > listed here: > = http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/x11-servers/xorg-server/files= / > and patch-bsd_KbdMap.c.2 ? >=20 > To recap (correct me if I get this wrong), Michael G. Jung has Ultra2 = and=20 > Aaron Dudek has Ultra60. Has anybody got keyboard working on Ultra10 = under X? > I don't know much about sparcs. Is there something specific about = Ultra10=20 > keyboard that could give us the clue about this. > Have you had X.Org 6.7 installed? Did that work? And you said that = using old=20 > 'keyboard' driver works, right? > I feel horrible that you had to go through several recompiles and = reinstalls=20 > and at the end keyboard seems to work for others, but we still have no = > solution for Ultra10 other than the old driver workaround :( I'm = afraid I=20 > have no more ideas about this (not that previous ones were any good). = The=20 > best I can do is to add a knob to xorg-server Makefile (say=20 > WITH_OLD_KEYBOARD) so it enables the workaround when used. Perhaps if = you ask=20 > on xorg@lists.freedesktop.org mailing list (see=20 > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg) about this problem = which=20 > seems specific to Ultra10 keyboard or file a bug report at=20 > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/ > Again thank you for testing and recompiles and reinstalls. I wish I = could be=20 > of more help. >=20 >=20 > Dejan >=20 Well, when I have time I'll try again, but it would be very interessting which of the two patches corrected the problem for the others. Btw: I just read the changelog for XFree-4.5 and found the following: "Fix off-by-one problem for keys on FreeBSD/sparc64." Perhaps this fix also works for xorg...=20 --=20 Matthias Muthmann <mmuthmann@gmx.net>
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