Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 15:43:34 -0700 From: Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> To: Jon Loeliger <jdl@vivato.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Bad X Port? Message-ID: <1061505814.632.1.camel@leguin> In-Reply-To: <D8B86D9BB607124BA1D54EDB7944DB0B0157D173@exchange.mabuhay> References: <D8B86D9BB607124BA1D54EDB7944DB0B0157D173@exchange.mabuhay>
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On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 09:10, Jon Loeliger wrote: > > Jon Loeliger schrieb: > > > > > Yes, I've googled and searched the mail logs and the > > > advice I've found there says "Oh, just recompile the > > > XFree86-libraries and it'll all be wonderful again!" > > > Oh yeah. I've built and rebuilt all sorts of combinations > > > of the libraries the servers, the clients, the base > > > port, the freetype2 and imake-4's, wrestled with the > > > lovely XDM, cvsup'ed with regularity and invariably > > > I get a XFree86 3.X server tossed into the mix for no > > > good reason somewhere. > > > > Put XFREE86_VERSION=4 into /etc/make.conf and remove the > > 3.x version. > > > > Bye, > > Alexander. > > > > Thanks, Alexander. I added the make.conf line as you suggested. > I also removed obvious 3.X port directories, but they just re-appeared > with the next cvsup. So I moved them out of the way just before > the build. > > I blew away (made clean, made deinstall, etc) all sorts of ports > (XFree86-4-*, x11/*, imake-4, freetype2, etc), and apparently > successfully rebuilt the whole mess. That's a good start. > > However, I am still getting the mode-change-on-key-press problem. > I can start X via either xdm and get a login screen, or I can be myself > and use "startx" which happily fires up all my .xinitrc/.xsession > scripted stuff but in a really wrong mode. Any keypress changes it > to a much smaller mode (fonts displayed larger). Cltr-Alt-backspace > still causes X to quit, though. Do you by chance have non-default xkb settings in your XF86Config? If so, try going back to default and finding the updated xkb howto (don't remember where it is), since things changed a lot for 4.3.0. -- Eric Anholt eta@lclark.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/ anholt@FreeBSD.org
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