Summary: | xorg-x11 >=6.8.2-r6 - on sparc, VT-switching no longer possible | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Chance Platt <chance> |
Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Gentoo X packagers <x11> |
Status: | RESOLVED UPSTREAM | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | sparc |
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | Sparc | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
URL: | https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5827 | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Chance Platt
2005-10-28 10:02:47 UTC
At first glance, this seems to be true for me as well. I have not really investigated it beyond that. First thing to check is just an ls of each patch tarball and compare which patches are in there. Ferris, could you do that? Check if it was that kbd-on-2.4... I remember adding that awhile back, and it's not in -r4. Assuming 6.8.2-r4 worked (which Chance claims so), there are two new patch tarballs: one for -r5 (which might or might not have worked,\) and one for -r6: xorg-x11-6.8.2-patches-0.1.12.tar.bz2 (dated Sept 21), xorg-x11-6.8.2-patches-0.1.13.tar.bz2 (dated Oct 3) ======= The 0.1.12 patch set has these new patches in it: 1000_all_6.8.2-fix-kbd-on-kernel-2.4.patch 1001_all_6.8.2-sunffb-xaa-extension.patch 1002_all_6.8.2-sunleo-fixes.patch 9930_all_6.8.2-fbmmx-gcc4.patch ===================== The first three are sparc-specific, but they have been well tested. ====================== The 0.1.13 patch set has these new patches in it: ================== 9924_all_6.8.2-fbmmx-may.patch 9924_all_6.8.2-fix-fbcopy-transparencies.patch 9930_all_6.8.2-fbmmx-gcc4.patch The big change for sparc is the elimination of the deprecated keyboard driver (although it's a tiny patch). I suppose this could be related to how xorg is configured in the keyboard's InputDevice Section, but unfortunately, I don't have a working example to compare against. And, although I have been using the 'kbd' patch for quite a while, I never do a VT switch, so I cannot comment on whether or not that functionality was present in -r4+kbd fix. For what it's worth: 1. VT switching also fails on X-modular, kernel 2.6.13 (SB1000) 2. VT switching works fine for xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6 with kernel 2.6.14 (U60) I'm assuming that's latest modular? Yes. I have all of modular in my world file, so it's as of 'emerge --sync; emerge -uv world' today. I am not anyplace where I can check, but I think U60's xorg.conf and SB1000's xorg.conf should be the same for kernel 2.6.xx. Keyboards are different, though, because SB1000 uses a universal connector. (Anyway, it's the most current X-modular available.) I am pretty certain that this is another problem with kbd+sparc+kernel-2.4.xx. Easiest quick fix is just to put the build for deprecated driver back into the ebuild for 6.8.2-r6 (no version bump), It looks as if we are actually making progress on the sparc kernel-2.6 problems, so I doubt that this is worth pursuing (for Gentoo); it's almost certainly an upstream problem with kbd, anyway. The SB1000+kernel-2.6+X-modular problem is, I think, independent of this, and I'll look at it further. It could be USB related; I will be putting X-modular onto a U60(kernel-2.6.14) in a few days and will know more then. (As I said, I never do a VTswitch, so I can't say if SB1000 has ever worked.) Don't know if this information helps, but I'm using xorg-x11 6.8.2-r6 with a USB PC keyboard (plugged into a PCI USB card), on an UltraSparc, kernel 2.6.15, and VT switching does work. Ferris: Any news regarding this on the modular X front now that it's released? (In reply to comment #10) > Ferris: Any news regarding this on the modular X front now that it's released? > It's never worked for me, any kernel, any keyboard on X-modular/sparc. Last I knew, I believe it did not work with X-modular on anything, though. (If I remember correctly, spyderous reported that.) I just verified 90 seconds ago that it does not work for sparc on X-modular, either kernel. Both are completely current X-modular systems, standard Sun type-5 keyboards. (Also, sun type-6 USB keyboard failed, last I checked. That is within the last couple weeks.) Upstream, https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2600 looks similar, but it's probably a KDM bug of some sort. This is something that should get moved to bugs.fdo. Ferris, mind doing that? (In reply to comment #12) > Upstream, https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2600 looks similar, but > it's probably a KDM bug of some sort. > > This is something that should get moved to bugs.fdo. Ferris, mind doing that? > Done; see https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5827 for X-modular. Thanks, that's all we're really worried about at this point. |