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Re: Text-mode issues
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 18:52:48 +0200 (MEST)
- Subject: Re: Text-mode issues
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Tue, 20 May 2003, Benjamin Riefenstahl wrote:
> 2) The /tmp directory must be on a binary mount, otherwise
> international keyboards don't work. I fought with that some time
> because I had forgotten about this, but than I found it again in
> the archives. As the /tmp directory is a common resource, I don't
> like that at all. Related to this bug is that the error doesn't
> seem to show in the log, at least I couldn't find any hint, the
> keyboard just isn't set correctly.
This is already fixed in CVS. But we've done no new release yet. Maybe
we should provide 4.3.0 packages soon.
> 3) The binary files in CVS are not marked as such (cvs admin -kb).
> This is not only in the hw/xwin directory, but in the whole XFree
> CVS. In theory this is not only an issue on Windows but on Unix
> also. In practice, a regular CVS checkout is just broken on
> Windows, unless you only use Cygwin's CVS tools with binary mounts.
>
> The first thing for development is item 3), the CVS setup. Has this
> ever been discussed? Or is it just that nobody is aware of the
> problem yet? I guess I'll need to post to devel@Xfree86.org about it,
> I just subscribed to that list.
No, this has never been dicussed and was never a problem for me (I've
never noticed this at all).
bye
ago