Re: initial xorg problems

[bharder <bharder%methodlogic.net@localhost>]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 08:22:43AM +0100, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just upgraded my workstation from 4.99.72 with XFree86 to 5.0_BETA with
> native X.org.  A few initial problems I noted:
> (I moved away /usr/X11R6, and tried the following both with my old /etc/X11
> config tree and a fresh one extracted from xetc.tgz)
> 
> - /etc/rc.d/xdm still invokes /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm.  Perhaps this file (and
>   /etc.rc.d/xfs) should be moved to the xetc set instead?
> 
> - /usr/X11R7/man manpages are not in the default search path.
> 
> - xdm doesn't invoke my .xsession after login, I just get a single xterm.
>   xinit and startx work properly though and start my usual session.
> 
> - with an UTF-8 locale (LC_CTYPE=nl_BE.UTF-8 or en_US.UTF-8), when I start
>   an xterm it prints "Failed to open input method", and then takes another
>   3 seconds to show the xterm window.  With LC_CTYPE unset, xterm starts
>   immediatly.
> 
> - long key presses don't repeat the key's input anymore, I have to press a
>   key multiple times instead.


I've been experiencing this one on 4.99.73 for a while now... I assumed it'd be 
an xset(1) tweak, or similar...


> The first two are easy to fix, but for the latter three, I don't know what
> causes them.  They always worked fine with native XF86 on the same box.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
>       Geert
> 
> 

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Brad Harder,
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