i have a bit of an unusual key binding in X ... ctrl+alt+del will pull up firefox ... with <=xrog-x11-6.8.1-r1, this is not a problem ... however, i noticed when i upgraded to 6.8.1-r2, suddenly my box was rebooting itself when i tried to load up firefox ;) a less destructive key to test with would be the button next to the right alt key ... when you're on the console, it will switch to the last used console ... now in X, it will switch back to console by just pressing this button ... i dont know wtf it's called, but xev reports it as 'Super_R' and if you're in Windows, it will pop up menus as if you right clicked the mouse Portage 2.0.51.22-r1 (default-linux/amd64/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3-20050110, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.11.12-grsec x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11.12-grsec x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12 distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.9 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10, 2.16-r1, 2.16.1, 2.16.90.0.3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=k8 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control /var/vpopmail/domains /var/vpopmail/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=k8 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache cvs distlocks multilib noauto noinfo sandbox sfperms sign" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j6" PKGDIR="/mnt/space/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://gentoo/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X a52 aac aalib acl acpi adns alsa audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cddb cdparanoia cdr crypt cups curl dba directfb dts dvd dvdr dvdread encode esd fam fbcon flac flash font-server gd gif glitz gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 jack joystick jp2 jpeg jpeg2k libcaca libedit libwww lzo lzw lzw-tiff mad maildir mikmod mime mng motif mp3 mpeg multilib mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pcre perl pic png python quicktime readline real samba sdl sndfile spell sqlite ssl svg tcltk tcpd tetex threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userlocales vorbis wmf xanim xine xml xml2 xmms xpm xrandr xv xvid xvmc zlib video_cards_nvidia userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
I can't confirm this happening on either of my x86 machines.
Want to attach your X log? It would be even better to get a diff of working and non-working, if you happened to quickpkg -r1. Also, can you reproduce with 6.8.99.x?
simply doing `emerge =xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1` gave me a working version again ... i made binpkgs of -r1 and -r2 and ran them ... the only diff between the log files is this line: (II) Keyboard: unable to use input device masking 'Invalid argument', trying grabbing. it's the 2nd to last line in the log and it appears in the *r1* version, not the *r2* one ... seems like if i got an error it should have been in the newer log, not the older heh
OK, thanks for testing that out. Could you attach the X log (from either) and your xorg.conf? Also still waiting for a report on 6.8.99.x.
sorry, missed the .99.x request, i'll give that a try tomorrow
Created attachment 61753 [details] xorg.conf
seems i have evdev support turned on (forgot about that) ... i'll try again with it turned off
Ah, yeah. Definitely. The evdev stuff in 6.8.2 is patched in and I essentially don't support it at all besides accepting new patches. The evdev driver in 6.8.99.x is all-new and quite different. Uses evdev as a driver rather than a mouse protocol.
ok, disabling evdev fixed the issue with xorg-x11-6.8.2-r2 when i tried to use the same config file with 6.8.99.8 though, i got the error: (**) Option "CoreKeyboard" (**) Keyboard: Core Keyboard (**) Option "Protocol" "evdev" (EE) "evdev" is not a valid keyboard protocol name (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Keyboard" (II) UnloadModule: "kbd" No core keyboard
Yep, I explained that in comment #8. Is there any part of that you'd like clarified? I'm gonna WONTFIX this unless you'd like to provide a patch to fix. If so, please reopen then.
yes, i realize you said it is unsupported in 6.8.2 ... but your comment about it being a driver instead of a mouse protocol i dont understand ... i used it as a keyboard protocol ... do i just change the keyboard driver from 'kbd' to 'evdev' ?
Right. Check out https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=968 for some more info on it, including a somewhat sparse man page.
