serious (for me) Xorg 7.5 mouse/kbd problem in 8.1-STABLE

[William Bulley]

According to jhell <jhell at DataIX.net> on Wed, 08/25/10 at 09:24:
> On 08/25/2010 07:38, William Bulley wrote:
> > For years I have run Open-Motif on FreeBSD without issue.
> > 
> > I use a USB keyboard and a USB three button mouse attached to a Dell
> > Optiplex 960.  This combination has worked fine for the past year.
> > 
> > This week I upgraded from 8.0-STABLE circa January 2010 to 8.1-STABLE.
> > I do this by doing a buildworld/installworld sequence after csup-ing
> > stable-supfile and rebooting.  In this case I also pkg_deleted all of
> > my ports and am rebuilding them from source.  Building Xorg is one of
> > the very first ports I attempt since I prefer to work in xterms not
> > virtual terminals.
> > 
> > This upgrade moved me from Xorg 7.3 to Xorg 7.5, but Open-Motif stayed
> > the same - open-motif-2.2.3_6 - it hasn't changed in years.
> > 
> > After building Xorg, as root, I ran the "Xorg -configure" command to
> > generate my xorg.conf.new file.  Since a working /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> > file was still around after the upgrade from 8.0-STABLE/Xorg 7.3, I
> > felt no need to change anything in that file (later file comparisons
> > confirmed that nothing had changed).
> > 
> > My only relevant additions to /etc/X11/xorg.conf are these:
> > 
> >    Section "ServerFlags"
> >         Option  "AutoAddDevices" "off"
> >         Option  "DontZap" "false"
> >    EndSection
> > 
> > In my /etc/rc.conf file I have dbus and hald enabled, and that has
> > not changed since the beginning of 2010 after the confusion abated.
> > 
> > As a normal user, I start Xorg using /usr/local/bin/xinit as always.
> > I have several xterms configured in my ~/.xinitrc file.  All those
> > came up in the correct location and state.  I was able to open those
> > that started in iconic mode.  In an open/raised xterm I could enter
> > carriage returns and see my shell prompt move down the window.  But
> > when I tried to close/minimize an open/raised xterm, things failed.
> > 
> > I use the following keyboard/mouse combination (configured in my
> > .mwmrc file) to close (minimize) an xterm (and other applications):
> > 
> >    Shift   <Btn3Click>     window          f.minimize
> > 
> > This is also unchanged for some years.  This particular setting has
> > no bearing on the problem I came across yesterday.  I merely state
> > it for the record.  However, this configuration triggers the "bug".
> > 
> > The problem is as soon as I use that Shift/Btn3Click combination,
> > my arrow cursor disappears, then I cannot move to or select other
> > xterms - I am frozen, or locked, into the xterm I was trying to
> > close/minimize.  All I can do at this point is to kill(1) the
> > /usr/local/bin/xinit command to return to the virtual terminal
> > where I launched my Xorg session.
> > 
> > I am now reluctantly using the good old /usr/local/bin/twm which
> > is always built when Xorg is built from source.  I am at a loss
> > as to what to look for next.  I suspect Xorg, or the keyboard and
> > mouse driver, not the video driver, that came with.  It might be
> > a problem with hald(8), but again, I don't know how to debug this.
> > 
> > Any help with this very odd bug would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Though I can't really help you with the mouse disapearing I can say if
> you wish to modify you key-map to allow ctrl+alt+bksp you can add this
> to your .xinitrc ( setxkbmap -option "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" )

Thanks.

Interestingly enough, I do have this line in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file:

   Section "InputDevice"
      Option      "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
   EndSection

But that never has seemed to work.  :-(

I will try your suggestion.  I hope it works, although killing the
xinit process is not much more difficult.  Of course, your suggestion
(and my workaround) to return to the virtual terminal command line
depends upon a working keyboard...   :-)

Regards,

web...

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William Bulley                     Email: web at umich.edu

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