Re: Couple minor native Xorg bugs

["Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost>]

On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Jared D. McNeill wrote:
>  2. 'startx' with no config selects the "vesa" driver, and the mouse
>     doesn't work.

The "vesa" selection appears to be caused by the way we populate 
/usr/X11R7/lib/modules/drivers/, if I get rid of the symlink nest and 
simply install each driver as foo_drv.so it works.

Here's an untested patch for the mouse:

Index: dist/hw/xfree86/common/xf86Config.c
===================================================================
RCS file: 
/cvsroot/xsrc/external/mit/xorg-server/dist/hw/xfree86/common/xf86Config.c,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.1
diff -u -p -r1.1.1.1 xf86Config.c
--- dist/hw/xfree86/common/xf86Config.c 31 Jul 2008 19:49:42 -0000      1.1.1.1
+++ dist/hw/xfree86/common/xf86Config.c 23 Oct 2008 17:01:03 -0000
@@ -1338,6 +1338,17 @@ checkCoreInputDevices(serverLayoutPtr se
        bzero(&defPtr, sizeof(defPtr));
        defPtr.inp_identifier = "<default pointer>";
        defPtr.inp_driver = "mouse";
+#ifdef __NetBSD__
+       defPtr.inp_option_list =
+           xf86addNewOption(defPtr.inp_option_list, xstrdup("Protocol"),
+                            xstrdup("wsmouse"));
+       defPtr.inp_option_list =
+           xf86addNewOption(defPtr.inp_option_list, xstrdup("Device"),
+                            xstrdup("/dev/wsmouse"));
+       defPtr.inp_option_list =
+           xf86addNewOption(defPtr.inp_option_list, xstrdup("ZAxisMapping"),
+                            xstrdup("4 5 6 7"));
+#endif
        confInput = &defPtr;
        foundPointer = TRUE;
        from = X_DEFAULT;

>  3. 'X -configure' selects the "vesa" driver instead of "intel".

I checked in a fix for this.

>  4. Unable to switch from X to console with ctrl+alt+Fn
>  5. No big warning when I tried to use X without the xetc set
>     installed.
>
> That's all for now.
>
> Cheers,
> Jared