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Path: sserve!euryale!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!oleane!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!satisfied.apocalypse.org!wizard.pn.com!news.zeitgeist.net!news.greatbasin.net!usenet From: Eric Blood <eblood@cs.unr.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: XFree and FreeBSD 2.0.5 problems Date: 30 Jul 1995 16:43:27 GMT Organization: Great Basin Internet Services, Reno, NV Lines: 22 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3vgcrf$220@news.greatbasin.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: winky.reno.nv.us Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.2b1 (Windows; I; 32bit) To: eblood@cs.unr.edu I've installed FreeBSD 2.0.5R off the CDROM for the first time. As an aside, I would like to say that I was impressed. Plus it sure beats those all night downloads. =) The problem I encountered is that when I do either a "startx" or use xdm and switch back to a regular virtual console the keyboard most of the time is really screwed up. I believe the problem is when I hold down the CTRL key and click a mouse button in an Xterm nothing happens (where as the menu should come up). When I do switch back to the regular console, it looks like everything is being preceded by a control key. I can't say for sure because some of the characters it generates are graphic. Another problem is that with xdm, I can log in as root just fine, but logging in as anyone else fails with Xauth errors in their xsession file. Eric V. Blood eblood@cs.unr.edu