Subject: Re: problems with XFree4.0.1
From: Nathan Hjelm (hjelmn@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Sep 19 2000 - 15:24:30 MDT
it remaps to cntrl-option <fkey> to swith to a consoe
and from a console it should work how it did before.
--- dan <dan.kortschak@adelaide.edu.au> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> I recently upgraded to XFree86 4.0.1 from 3.3.6.
> From Franz Sirls RPMs. Now the
> keymapping for my consoles has gone all screwy - to
> the extent that if I go to a
> console the only way I can get back is to poweroff.
> All the packages that were
> placed at his ftp site were installed and because
> my previous initscripts
> package was 4.95.2 (Yellowdog CS1.2) I did not do
> the various incantations
> described in the initscripts warning. The
> /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/keyboard_send_linux_keycodes
> is supposed to be set to 1
> during init by /etc/sysctl.conf which is present. So
> the situation is that I can
> have a meaningful keyboard in X or a meaningful
> keyboard on the consoles, but
> not both. I hope someone has a fix for this.
>
> thanks for your time
> Dan Kortcshak
>
> > rpm -q initscripts
> initscripts-5.35-1a
> > ls /mnt/cdrom/YellowDog/RPMS/init*
> /mnt/cdrom/YellowDog/RPMS/initscripts-4.95-2.ppc.rpm
>
> > cat
> /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/keyboard_send_linux_keycodes
> cat:
> /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/keyboard_send_linux_keycodes:
> No such file or
> directory
> > cat /etc/sysctl.conf
> # Disables packet forwarding
> net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0
> # Enables source route verification
> net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 1
> # Disables automatic defragmentation (needed for
> masquerading, LVS)
> net.ipv4.ip_always_defrag = 0
> # Disables the magic-sysrq key
> kernel.sysrq = 0
> # enables new keycodes on PPC
> dev.mac_hid.keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes = 1
>
> All the RPMs except ISO and cyrillic fonts are
> installed to the following
> version (this I am pretty sure was the full
> directory at your site):
> Mesa-3.3-2.ppc.rpm
> Mesa-devel-3.3-2.ppc.rpm
> README.txt
> WARNING-initscripts-5.27-to-5.35-upgrade.txt
> XF86Config.G3-r128.newinputlayer
> XF86Config.G3-r128.old_kernels
> XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.0.1-0.36a.ppc.rpm
> XFree86-4.0.1-0.36a.ppc.rpm
> XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.0.1-0.36a.ppc.rpm
> XFree86-ISO8859-2-100dpi-fonts-4.0.1-0.36a.ppc.rpm
> XFree86-ISO8859-2-75dpi-fonts-4.0.1-0.36a.ppc.rpm
> XFree86-V4L-4.0.1-0.36a.ppc.rpm
> XFree86-Xnest-4.0.1-0.36a.ppc.rpm
> XFree86-Xvfb-4.0.1-0.36a.ppc.rpm
> XFree86-cyrillic-fonts-4.0.1-0.36a.ppc.rpm
> XFree86-devel-4.0.1-0.36a.ppc.rpm
> XFree86-doc-4.0.1-0.36a.ppc.rpm
> XFree86-libs-4.0.1-0.36a.ppc.rpm
> XFree86-tools-4.0.1-0.36a.ppc.rpm
> XFree86-twm-4.0.1-0.36a.ppc.rpm
> XFree86-xdm-4.0.1-0.36a.ppc.rpm
> XFree86-xf86cfg-4.0.1-0.36a.ppc.rpm
> XFree86-xfs-4.0.1-0.36a.ppc.rpm
> bzip2-1.0.1-2.ppc.rpm
> bzip2-devel-1.0.1-2.ppc.rpm
> chkconfig-1.2.7-1.ppc.rpm
> console-tools-19990829-10d.ppc.rpm
> drivers_only-0.30c.tar.bz2
> initscripts-5.35-1a.ppc.rpm
> modutils-2.3.11-7.ppc.rpm
> ntsysv-1.2.7-1.ppc.rpm
> pam-0.72-19.ppc.rpm
> popt-1.5-7.6xa.ppc.rpm
> procps-2.0.6-5.ppc.rpm
> procps-X11-2.0.6-5.ppc.rpm
> rpm-3.0.5-7.6xa.ppc.rpm
> rpm-build-3.0.5-7.6xa.ppc.rpm
> rpm-devel-3.0.5-7.6xa.ppc.rpm
> rpm-python-3.0.5-7.6xa.ppc.rpm
> rusers-0.16-4.ppc.rpm
> rusers-server-0.16-4.ppc.rpm
> setup-2.1.8-1.noarch.rpm
> xinitrc-2.9.5-1.noarch.rpm
>
>
> --
>
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