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Re: amiga framebuffer (aga) and xfree 4.2.1-3: shadowfb trouble



On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 12:20:08AM +0200, Storm66 wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 02:44, Ross Vumbaca wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> > 
> > > Ask on the right list, debian-68k knows more about this than debian-x I
> > > guess. I haven't been able to get XFree86 4.x working myself on my Amiga,
> > > but I believe it made some progress since I last tried. I heard there are
> > > still problems with the module loader, or maybe just on 060 machines. One
> > > proposed fix was to install the debugging version, which has all the modules
> > > compiled in: xserver-xfree86-dbg
> > > But maybe somebody who actually has X4.x running on m68k can tell you more?
> > 
> > XFree 4.1 does actually run on m68k now, I saw it running on a friend's 
> > Amiga 4000/040 (using virgefb), but to get it to run, I believe that we 
> > had to prevent it from loading any modules, and we couldn't get the 
> > keymap configured correctly (I think it was configured for a PC 
> > keyboard), so we couldn't type anything properly. Mouse was ok though.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Ross..
> 
> I have an X system running (?) on my A2000/060/CV64 it runs with 16Bpp,
> but I have many keyboard problems.
> I didn't find a french keyboard (I had made a working one with X 3.3 but
> I lost it in a disk crash (I didn't had enough disk space at that time).
> I think I will use an "usa1" keyboard to have more tests as many keys
> does not work at all such as CTRL, SHIFT. I cant't do CTRL+SHIFT+F1 so I
> have to reboot when something goes wrong or go through telnet from
> another machine....

Don't know about 68k, but on my iMac the combo is Ctrl-Option- not -Shift-


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