On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 23:19, Branden Robinson wrote: > Please don't CC me on replies to mailing lists I read, like this one. > > On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 09:03:14PM -0400, Ray Knight wrote: > > [CTRL-ALT-Fn VT switching doesn't work on m68k with XFree86 4.x] > > > It's definitely an X problem and not a kernel problem as I use the same > > kernel on potato and woody. It works properly on potato, it works > > properly on woody as long as X is not installed or running. Use startx > > X to the X server and you can no longer switch to another console on > > woody. > > I cannot think of any change to the X server code from 3.3.6 to 4.0 or > later that would have broken this. It's handled in XF86Events.c. > I can't figure out the resolution to this problem. I guess I need to get the XFree source and look at XF86Events.c to see if perhaps its a configuration problem.
> [mouse button emulation on the keyboard] > > > This also worked correctly on potato with X Version 3.3.x, but no longer > > works on woody. > > Well, I don't know *how* it worked, then. Neither XKB nor traditional X > core keyboard support know anything about mouse button emulation, except > as I described. This turns out to have been a window manager problem. The right Ctrl, and Alt keys function as mouse buttons in KDE just fine. I now have KDE running on a Quadra 650 w/15" monitor at 832x624x15 and a Quadra 950 w/17" monitor at 1024x768x15 and both are quite usable. Ray
