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mrgalihad
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2003 9:45 pm    Post subject: the new X Reply with quote

has anyone tried Xfree 4.3.0 on thier sparc box yet? I have a sunblade 100, and when I tried to upgrade to 4.2.99 It had serious sync rate issues, and I was forced to downgrade again. Anyone have better luck with 4.3, I'd like to know before I spend all my time upgrading just to potentially downgrade again....
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 05, 2003 3:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Todd on irc in #gentoo-sparc stated that he'd had keyboard issues.
Quote:
seemant: todd: what errors?
todd: keyboard is worse than the 4.2.1 problems
todd: other than that it looks great
seemant: really? @ k/b issues?
todd: yeppers
todd: can't change to consoles or anything, the normal L wants to be a B key problem...erm..couple other things.
todd: control-alt-backspace didn't work
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 05, 2003 11:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi all,

I've had keyboard issues with X 4.3.0 as well. I'm attempting to use their new keyboard layout but I guess I still have some tweaking to do as it's not working right. Graphically it seems to work well on an Ultra 5.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 07, 2003 10:06 pm    Post subject: X 4.3.0 on Ultra 1 Creator Reply with quote

I'm also experiencing the "L wants to be B" problem.

Did a straight emerge using:

Code:
 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~sparc"  emerge  xfree


(For those who are interested, the emerge took 1018 minutes (16.97 hrs). )

My hardware:
Sun Ultra 1 Creator
167Mhz TI UltraSPARC 1
256MB RAM
(1) 2.1GB, (1) 4.3GB SCSI Drive
Creator Series 1 24-bit color framebuffer *
(*sunffb) (Sun P/N 501-4127)

I'd really *hate* to have to remove 4.3 and emerge 4.2.x, so any help sorting out this keyboard weirdness is most appreciated.
Thanks!
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 08, 2003 5:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

hey its todd from irc..hehe

i still haven't found any solution for it..and i'm not really crafty enough to dig into config files and stuff to figure it out, if its even in there..

I'm sitting with 4.2.1-r2 and it works fine now.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 08, 2003 5:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just went poking around xfree86's site and people are reporting this problem on the mailing lists, but no signs of a resolution yet
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 23, 2003 9:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have 4.3.0 running on my Ultra5 with only a few problems. cant switch terminals and no ctrl-alt-bksp ... all other keys seem to be working great. I am using all of the default config files for X
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 23, 2003 11:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

One fix for the Ctrl+Alt+Backspace and/or Ctrl+Alt+FKey that's working for me is adding the following line to the ServerLayout section of my XF86Config

Option "HandleSpecialKeys" "Always"

I'd be interested to hear if it works for others.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 24, 2003 3:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Weeve wrote:
One fix for the Ctrl+Alt+Backspace and/or Ctrl+Alt+FKey that's working for me is adding the following line to the ServerLayout section of my XF86Config

Option "HandleSpecialKeys" "Always"

I'd be interested to hear if it works for others.


I gave it a try...didn't work for me at all. Just figured I'd reply for the record.

--Todd
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 22, 2003 11:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I checked with XFree86's bugzilla, and they say they fixed it in CVS. If you look at version 3.147, it looks like they address this issue. My question is, how do you add that file to the ebuild (new to gentoo, experienced with linux)?
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 22, 2003 1:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just updated to xfree-4.3.0-r2, and so far keyboard lawout seems OK,
once I remove the Configuration line
Option "XkbSymbols" "sun/us(sun5)"
(this is a sun type5 keyboard/Creator FFB2+(H) system).

However, anything using openGL always Segfaults, sometimes with a
gratuitous system lockup requiring an abort from another terminal.

I notice some bug reports against opengl reporting similar failures, but they
seem to be -nvidia- related which has no relevance on an Ultra2/Creator
system. (E.g., glxgears gets a Seg fault). Has anyone else seen anything
like this, or am I not quite completely configured?
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