Bad X Port?

[Eric Anholt]

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.


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