From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3ADCDAE5.DF026FAD@iiic.ethz.ch> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 02:08:05 +0200 From: Michel =?iso-8859-1?Q?D=E4nzer?= MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Iain Sandoe Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: XF4, SysRq, VT, mouse buttons, Keymaps and all that References: <20010418000558.4CD04DBB02@atlas.valhalla.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Iain Sandoe wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 17, 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > Iain Sandoe wrote: > [..] > >> Michel's advice to "option XkbDisable" gives partial functionality (VT > >> switches, server re-start).... but... with no mouse button emulation or > >> SysRq. (haven't tried MoL yet). > > > > The latter two aren't X but kernel issues. > > agreed - so how come installing a new version of X blows them away :-/ > (maybe it's a co-incidence... hmmm... did I try 2.4.4 _before_ I > upgraded... can't remember)... > > AH! I know what I changed - I've left off the "Xpmac backward compatibility" > CONFIG option ... should I still use that with XF4 ? Don't think so. The thing is XF4 doesn't do mouse button emulation, the kernel does that. For SysRq I suspect that has to do with Linux keycodes? -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/