Re: Re: CRTL-ALT-BACKSPACE broken

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> On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 04:01:01PM -0800, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
> > On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > >   As Alan mentioned earlier, this does seem to be broken.  I just
> > > synced up on PPC and find that none of the CRTL-ALT-XXXX keys work
> > > anymore.  Can't quit with CTRL-ALT-BS, can't switch VTs.
> > > 
> > >   There have been modifications by Marc and David to xf86Events.c
> > > during the last week.  David's specifically modifies CTRL-ALT behavior.
> > > Marc's puts some #ifdefs around related code, but the logic
> > > doesn't look suspect.
> > > 
> > 
> >    Are we the only ones seeing this?  I just synced up and made World
> > again, and made sure I got rid of my host.def so that I didn't have
> > any stale configuration around.  I still can't do any CTRL-ALT-XXX.
> 
> I'm looking into this now. Disabling xkb with -kb makes it work.
> 
> So I suspect the addition of the ddxVT.c/ddxKillSrv.c which I'm checking
> on now is the problem.

The problem is essentially a conflict between a few different patches that
got merged recently.  Patch 5510 that Ivan sent several days ago, will resolve
the conflict.
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