Re: Alt-Fx bug still there

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 [email protected] wrote:

> i had checkout X yesterday and built it right away. I fired it up, starting
> xdm and was not able to Alt-Fx or Ctrl-Alt-Backspace.
> A message in XFree86.0.log shows someting that might be related to it:
> Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB.
> It's not the precise words but I hope you know what it's saying.
> Well, then I happened to find out when the problem does not occur: When I
> start via startx. No problems with XKB in logfile as well.
> But not only when starting via xdm but also when I did:
> XFree86 -configure
> XFree86 -xf86config ./XF86Config
> And I had the same problem. When logged in into a window manager like twm.
> The keys just don't react, when a console is focused I get a "P" when
> hitting Ctrl-F1 and a backspace when doing ctrl-alt-backspace.
> At the login screen of xdm I get beeps when Ctrl-Fx and nothing happens when
> doing ctrl-alt-backspace.

I've built from CVS this morning, and installed it on 2 machines.
Ctl-ALt-Fx works on the first one, but not the second, which reports 
the same message as you:
	Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap

Like you I get this with the config file built from X -configure
(fixing the font modules so that finds fixed where necessary),
and with my usual configure files.

The Ctl-ALt-Fx keys work on a machine with a Matrox G550 (XFree86 mga 
driver), but not on three other machines - one with an Intel i815, one 
with an ATI Mach64 (ati_misc driver) and one with an ATI R128 (r128 driver).

(These machines are all running Red Hat 6.2)

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Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison		Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
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