>> yesterday, I was using XFree86 with the fvwm Window manager. After working
>
>Which version of XFree86?
3.1.1, I think.
>> fine for some time, first "ddd" started to behave strangely: When moving
>
>"ddd"? Never heard of it.
It's a very nice graphical interface for gdb, I like it much
better than xxgdb.
>> the mousepointer into the "command" window, lots of messages about
>> unknown commands (which where empty) scrolled around.
>
>huh.
Exactly.
>> Later, the Ctrl-Arrow-combination (switching of virtual pages) ceased
>> to work, apparently the corresponding messages (?) were directed to
>> the current window, not to the Window manager.
>
>> I never had these problems with 1.2.11, so I thought it could have
>> been caused by the kernel...
>
>What kernel version are you using now?
Good question. It's 1.3.71
>What else did you have to change when you upgraded the
>kernel?
Oh, lots of things: I wanted to compile linux-1.3.53 and discovered
that gcc-2.7.2 appeared to be a good idea for pentium optimizations.
So I got gcc-2.7.2, but it wouldn't work. Of course not, I was still
running aout, and it was an ELF binary.
So I got the ELF-HOWTO and the latest versions of the binutils
(ld -v prints something like "ld 2.6 (BFD 2.6.0.2)) and the
other files described in the HOWTO.
Now I could compile the kernel, but nothing else. So I upgraded
to a new version of libc, which didn't help until I got the
libc-5.2.18 as source-code and got it to compile (although I
can't get it to compile again now).
Currently it seems as if I can compile anything that's not using
the old aout libraries (like libfl.a or ncurses) because ld
gives me lots of unresolved references as soon as it sees an
aout archive.
Well, the linux-1.3.67 kernel at least went well, so I patched
it until I had 1.3.71
>I'm pretty sure I don't really know/care about this, but you
>might send the info when you ask the question.
I'm sorry I forgot. Probably Panic ;-)
>Oh, what kind of mouse do you have? What version of gpm (if
>any) are you running?
It's a M$-compatible Genius mouse. I don't know the gpm version
at the moment (and can't get it, because I don't get pppd 2.2.1 to
work and therefore have to use Windoze :-( for all TCP/IP activity),
it might be quite outdated, but could this really cause keystrokes
to be sent to the wrong recipient in XFree?
Best regards, Steffen 8-)