On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 21:23 +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
> For my sins, I've been building most of xorg-7.1 on multilib ppc64.
> Now, the book is thorough, but I really dislike ending up with
> things that I didn't build in 6.9 (e.g. xprint) and I don't want to
> use the deprecated things such as the proxy stuff, so I've stripped
> out the packages that I thought wouldn't be needed. (Then I went
> back and had to add ALL of the core fonts before it would display
> anything beyond the background and an 'x' cursor :). I know this
> means some people will tell me that I'm on my own if I build
> differently from the book, but I'm hping somebody can suggest
> fruitful lines of enquiry to fix my problems, which are:
>
> 1. ctrl_alt_{+,-} don't change the resolution. Peter Steiger
> remarked on this last month, but got no response. Unlike him, I'm
> not seeing any messages on the console log suggesting that the
> resolution is being altered. Like for him, xrandr works to change
> the resolution.
>
> 2. now that I've got mwm built as my temporary window manager (I
> need lesstif anyway), the alt-tab key combination to switch to the
> next window (i.e. the next xterm) is non-functional. The tab key
> itself works and alt works in e.g. alt-F4 to close a window.
>
> The things I've consciously omitted are:
>
> protocols
> ---------
> applewmproto, windowswmproto, xproxymanagementprotocol
>
> libraries
> ---------
> libXprintUtil, liboldX, libXprintAppUtil
>
> apps
> ----
> beforelight, bitmap, editres, elapse, fonttosfnt, fslsfonts,
> fstobdf, ico, lbxproxy, mkcfm, oclock, proxymgxkbcompr, rstart, showfont,
> smproxy, x11perf, xbiff, xclipboard, xconsole, xdbedizzy, xditview,
> xedit, xfd, xfindproxy, xfsinfo, xfwp, xgc, xkbprint, xload, xlogo,
> xlsatoms, xmag, xman, xmessage, xmh, xmore, xphelloworld,
> xplsprinters, xpr, xprehashprinterlist, xrx, xsetmode, xsetpointer,
> xtrap
>
> Any suggestions, please ?
I don't have access to a ppc
I don't build like (b)lfs anymore
I don't [fill in what you think might fit]
so don't blame me if I tell something wrong :-)
O.K. I suggest you have many modes to switch to ...
I also think you take a close look at Xorg.[any].log
did you try some other keyboards?
did you chek the keys with xev?
don't you think you need xkbcomp?
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