XOrg 6.8.0-r1 problems (solved)

HeadHolio · Guru Joined: 10 Aug 2002 Posts: 445

After upgrading from XOrg 6.7.0 to 6.8.0-r1 I have run into a few minor problems that have annoyed the hell out of me (I am using Gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.8-gentoo-r8 with nvidia-kernel-1.0.6111-r2 and nvidia-glx-1.0.6111),

1. Keyboard input is sometime delayed, echoed, or not responsive
This one really annoys me because things will seem to work fine but then screw up at the worse times like when playing games. Suddenly my character will be moving in the wrong direction, or he won't move at all. This also happens in konsole, suddenly doubling or tripling characters.

2. I cannot switch to a terminal screen. CTR+ALT+F1/2/3/4/5 are all unresponsive. And as you can guess, that annoys me too. The only way I can get back to a terminal screen is to kill kdm, and then press CTR+ALT+BACKSPACE.

3. XOrg 6.8.0-r1 would not accept the config file I was using from XOrg 6.7.0. This doesn't bother me as much because I can easily create a new config file. But as it turns out, the main problem was that it didn't like the following option:

zerojay · Veteran Joined: 09 Aug 2003 Posts: 1033

I believe the Keyboard module was renamed to "kbd".

HeadHolio · Guru Joined: 10 Aug 2002 Posts: 445

Tried changing it, makes no difference. I also tried downgrading to the "stable" nvidia-kernel/glx and opengl-update. All made no difference after reloading the modules.

cabbagewalker · Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 11:02 am Post subject:

Hi
I had a similar issue with <cntr><alt> Func 1 etc and also with the "Windows " menu keys after installing 6.8.1

Bug #47243 gave the answer to me.

There are two versions of xkbcomp,
one in
/usr/X11R6/bin

and the other in:
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb

The latter one is zero length.-- copying the first to the second made it work again.

cabbagewalker · Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 11:05 am Post subject:

OOPs
That should have been upgrading to

xorg-x11-6.8.0-r1
and not 6.8.1

HeadHolio · Guru Joined: 10 Aug 2002 Posts: 445

Well, I ssh'd into my system (from work) and you were right, one is a zero length file. I overwrote the zero length file with the proper file....hopefully this does the trick for me too. I won't be able to check until I get home.

MagnusBerg · Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 3:27 pm Post subject:

andersRson · n00b Joined: 12 Jun 2003 Posts: 17 Location: Sweden

MagnusBerg: That's an old font system, not needed for most people these days. You can comment out the "load speedo" line in xorg.conf.
HeadHolio: This does'nt answer your question, but you should remove the "load dri" line from that file. It doesn't play nice with nvidia drivers.

dsb · n00b Joined: 09 Sep 2004 Posts: 30 Location: MO

the new xorg does fill up all of my monitors area. I finally got a working conf, but looks like I have a 12 inch monitor.

HeadHolio · Guru Joined: 10 Aug 2002 Posts: 445

cabbagewalker: That solved it, thanks!

andersRson: Done, thanks for the tip!