RE: Unable to type letters in login to AIX box using XFree86 4.2.0 on W2K

["Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Pavel,

One quick check: you are running Cygwin/XFree86 4.2.0, right?  Or at least
the Test53 server?  (Test53 and 4.2.0 are almost, if not entirely,
identical).

I'll add a note to the FAQ sometime soon.

Thanks,

Harold

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pavel.Rybnicek@intax.cz [mailto:Pavel.Rybnicek@intax.cz]
> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 10:52 AM
> To: Harold Hunt
> Subject: RE: Unable to type letters in login to AIX box using XFree86
> 4.2.0 on W2K
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> Hi Harold
> I sent this problem to the mailing list two or three times, see below:
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2001-11/msg00051.html
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2001-q2/msg02577.html
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2001-q2/msg02575.html
> It's not all abaou that in the mailing list.
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> You don't need any arguments to -kb params, it DISABLES keyboard
> extension.
> I had problems with AIX 4.2 and 4.3 (I had no possibility to test
> any other
> version with xfree).
>
> I want use Czech keyboard layout - it uses AltGr key for characters like
> \|@{}[]#<> etc.
> As far as I remember (but I may be wrong) - the problem appeared with both
> cs_CZ and en_US
> keyboard layout on AIX and both CS and EN keyboard on Windows
> machine. If I
> remember, I tried
> Win98, WinNT workstation and W2K server.
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> I have found no info about this anywhere - I think it's problem of AIX and
> CygWin/XFree.
>
> example of my start command:
> start XWin -screen 0 1280 1024 -depth 32 -engine 4 -kb -query myAIXmachine
> -fp tcp/anotherAIXmachine:7500 -fullscreen -once -ac
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> I hope it helps.
>
> Pavel
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>                     "Harold Hunt"
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>                                          Subject:     RE: Unable
> to type letters in login to AIX box using XFree86 4.2.0 on W2K
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> Pavel,
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> > To Harold: I think this should be included in FAQ (and fixed,
> if you have
> > an AIX machine to test it :-)))
>
> This is the first that I have heard of the problem.  I need the problem to
> be described in more detail before I can add an entry to the FAQ.  I need
> to
> know how to reproduce the problem (even though I don't have an AIX
> machine),
> I need to know who is affected, and I need to know the exact command-line
> for the remedy (and I mean exact!).  (For example, 'use the -kb parameter'
> does not help me because I don't know if you need to pass options to -kb,
> etc.)
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> Here's a couple of questions:
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> 1) What keyboard layout is AIX expecting?  In other words, does
> this happen
> on AIX when using US-English as the default keyboard layout, or does this
> only happen when AIX is using a non-US keyboard layout?
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> 2) What keyboard layout is the Windows machine using?  In other
> words, does
> this happen regardless of the keyboard layout on the Windows machine, or
> does this only occur when the Windows machine is using a non-US layout?
> (I'm asking this because I saw AltGr mentioned.)
>
> 3) Are there any links to web sites that discuss this problem in more
> detail?  Or, is this only a problem when using XFree86 on Windows?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Harold
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> P.S.  I'll most likely put your name on the FAQ entry if you contribute
> enough information for me to document the problem.  (Otherwise, I won't be
> able to make a FAQ entry at all...)
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