Bug#462441: xserver-xorg: alt key gets stuck

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Tue, Apr  1, 2008 at 00:16:48 +0530, Amit Gurdasani wrote:

> I've seen this as recently as 2:1.4.1~git20080131-2, quite regularly, 
> once in two days to twice a day. Trying to use setxkbmap to reset the 
> keyboard layout causes the X server to instantly crash citing Xkb.
>
> I am really, really sick of the numerous bugs in Xorg 7.3. Enough that 
> I've downgraded to 7.2 wholesale using snapshot.debian.net.

1) you're using unstable. deal with it. guess why testing has xserver
   1.3.
2) if you want to make sure 7.4 is better, testing the pre-releases
   right now is your best bet.

> Another question: why does nvidia-glx depend on xserver-xorg-core (>=  
> 2:1.4)? Upstream has no such dependency, and because of this I had to  
> generate equivs for all the GL stuff and install using the binary driver. 
> Very annoying.
>
That's a question for the nvidia driver maintainer.

Cheers,
Julien