On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 12:03:25PM +0100, Christian Guggenberger wrote: > Anyway, now we do a least know, that the VBERestore Option (set to false) > really prevents X server crashes, while switching VT's. > Branden you might want do undo "SVN commit: r1147 - trunk/debian"( the bug > closer), as the change to the i830 part of the i810 driver has nothing to > do with this Bug (IMHO). On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 11:32:47AM -0800, Oliver Johns wrote: > Just for the record, in case someone out there has similar problems, > here is what happened in my case: > > (1) The initial update 4.2.1-->4.3.0 caused my C-A-F1 combo to stop > working. > (2) After some futzing around, I filed a bug against xserver-xfree86. > (3) Sometime later, an incremental update of 4.3.0 was made. But, on > the same day, the update of kde-3.1 to kde-3.2 was made. The result > was that my C-A-F1 started working again. > (4) I was delighted, and filed a bug-fixed comment to my earlier bug. > (5) Then I notice that my remapping of the keyboard to make the > diamond keys act as forward-delete was now not working. > (6) I found that the kde-3.2 no longer had lines > in /etc/kde3/kdm/Xsetup to call xmodmap and remap the keyboard. So, > I added those lines back. > (7) Now I found that my diamond keys were working, but that C-A-F1 was > broken again. > (8) Finally the light dawned. I backed out the lines to call > xmodmap. Then I did xmodmap -pke > xmodmap-new. Then I made the > modifications about the diamond keys in the file xmodmap-new > and moved it to /etc/X11/Xmodmap. Then I put back the lines in > /etc/kde3/kdm/Xsetup to call xmodmap and use /etc/X11/Xmodmap as the > new xmodmap. > (9) Now everything works OK. Thanks, guys. I have reverted the bogus annotation of the changelog in SVN r1152. -- G. Branden Robinson | One man's theology is another man's Debian GNU/Linux | belly laugh. branden@debian.org | -- Robert Heinlein http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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