On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 07:18:15PM +0100, Tapani Utriainen wrote:
>On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, David Dawes wrote:
>>
>> Have you looked into why XkbGetKeyboard() is returning NULL?
>>
>
>Only briefly, the trail of the error led to a so dark place that I
>didn't dare to enter it :-)
>
>XkbGetKeyboard() calls XkbGetKeyboardByName().
>
>That in turn uses _XReply() to fill in a xkbGetKbdByNameReply struct, and
>either that call fails, or the "reported" field of the struct is set to
>zero. (line 142 in XKBGetByName.c)

Does the xset call actually change the repeat rate when this happens
(with your fix)?  Also, do you need to do anything special to reproduce
this?  A check for a NULL return value from XkbGetKeyboard() should be
added (and I'll do that), but I'm wondering what ignoring it might be
covering up.

David
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David Dawes
Release Engineer/Architect                      The XFree86 Project
www.XFree86.org/~dawes
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