On Thursday 11 March 2004 05:00 am, you wrote: with 4.3.0-2. > > So, just curious and for the record, would you please try if things > also do work, when you add > > Option "VBERestore" "1" > > to your device section? > > thanks. > - Christian
Dear Christian, Thanks for the suggestion. If I put Option "VBERestore" "1" in the Device section of XF86Config-4, then I find that the keypress C-A-F1 will still switch to vt1. HOWEVER, when I use A-F7 to switch back, the screen goes blank. If I put Option "VBERestore" "0" then everything works totally correctly. (I assume that "0" is the default.) I have an 845G chipset. I think that VBERestore option was put in to help people with 830G chipsets. According to http://www.xfree86.org/~dawes/845driver.html this option was to allow 830G users to optionally back out a fix that had to be put in to get correct behaviour for my chipset, the 845G. After all of this, I think my problem was not the drivers at all. It turns out that 4.3.0 changed the rules for Xmodmap. The trap keys like C-A-F1 that had been implicit, were put explicitly into the internal xmodmap. If you do "xmodmap -pke" as root in a terminal, you'll see them in there. I was using an old modified Xmodmap to remap my keyboard, a Happy-Hacker's model, to make the diamond keys do a Delete-forward. But my Xmodmap didn't have the new entries for the trap keys! So I had to make a new Xmodmap starting from a current output of "xmodmap -pke". That solved the problem. So I don't know which Debian update "solved" my problem, since my problem was of my own making and not something about the drivers. Sorry. Hope the above data point helps. --OJ