Hi, That was easier than I expected. A simple counter increment was missing from the mouse code, so it didn't receive any events. Now it works.
In fact, it works excellent. XFree86 4.0.1 is just not supporting my graphic card, so I can only run 4bit color depth in 800x600 ;) Also, my graphic problems were actually no problems: In depth8, you get only 320x200 (and only half the screen was used, I don't know if this is correct. Anyway, with depth 4 I get full screen). I posted the patch to [EMAIL PROTECTED], I don't know if this is publicly available, so I put up a copy at http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de/files/xfree-401.diff.gz The debian packaging will follow later, don't press it, I need to give Branden some time to respond to my latets efforts. You also need a small fix in the mouse server, which I will add to the next Hurd Debian package soon to come. There are a couple of problems, here is my current list: 1. pflocal gets a load of threads (about 1700 after a couple of minutes using X). This doesn't seem to be harmful though. Killing pflocal between X sessions help. Does killing pflocal during an X session kill X? 2. mouse translator get's slow after a while, so mouse movement lags behind. Killing the mouse translator helps. Does killing mouse during an X session disturb X? 3. xdm deletes LD_LIBRARY_PATH from the environment, which means that it can't start other X processes. Setting the following in /etc/X11/xdm-config works around that, but might be a security risk(?): DisplayManager.exportList: LD_LIBRARY_PATH Could also be fixed with rpath, which conflicts with Debian policy. 4. kbd translator returns Interrupted System Call at open(). I can't reproduce this seperate from the Xserver, so this is a weird problem. Trying several times usually leads to success. 5. pflocal doesn't release the socket, and X thinks another server is already running. Sometimes killing pflocal helps, sometimes not (and in the cases it doesn't, I really wonder what's the culprit). So, as you can see, X and Hurd servers have some problems to cooperate nicely. This is a big chance for you (yes, YOU) to actually get the hand dirty with a debugger and debug some *interesting* Hurd translator bugs. Don't underestimate the challenge to track down and debug those bugs, and the fame will also be yours if you do it! Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de
