Re: Please help...

[Michel <mi...@da...>]

On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 22:23, Linux-Mailing-Lists wrote:
> .. it's very urgent!
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> Hello everybody,
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> today I updated my SuSE7.1 and installed all of the XFree4.2 (updated fro=
m
> 4.1)rpms I've found within the web!
> I had to do that because everytime I log  off from KDE2 or I want to leav=
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> my screen got some strange colorization and I had to reboot my Amiga and
> afterwards to run fsck on my large Linux-Partition!!! And this almost
> everytime I boot into Linux! This sucks really. I'm using the glint drive=
r
> with my CVPPC and kernel 2.4.18.
> The XFree-change worked fine (while in the testinstallation nothing was
> mentioned, but after the real installation I got an requester listing so
> many files that I could even not see the "OK"-button), but afterwards I d=
id
> not get my usual keyboard config within KDE2!!!
> In the xlogin-console both of the shift-keys don't work as they also did
> within every console under X/KDE2!!!
> Now I configured keyboard section of personalized settings within KDE2 to
> DE, extensions also to DE and tried every keyboard one can choice within
> this dialog =3D> everytime the same result: No working keyboard!!! I alwa=
ys
> get , on the "c"-key and so on!
> Does anybody know what to do and where to do it? My XF86Config is left
> unchanged, so I do not know where to fit this misbehaviour! And does
> anybody know how to get X wellbehaved so that I'll be able to shutdown my
> Linux properly?

You need Option "CustomKeycodes" in the keyboard section, look at the
example XF86Config-4 files in our contrib area.


PS: This is definitely a user question, dropping -devel.

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Earthling Michel D=E4nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast