Bad X Port?

[Jon Loeliger]

> 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.

Things are vaguely sane, given that X seems to fire up a server,
listens to the mouse and displays xterms and stuff just fine.

So, what information can I provide that will help narrow this problem?
A copy of my XF86Config?  What's so weird about this is -- see if you've
heard this before -- it used to work!  With 4.X even.  It's just that
I tried to install a new Perl port parts and I got caught into the
slippery "portupgrade -a" slide and now it is toasted...

Thanks,
jdl