Bug 84306 – VTswitching in console is broken while switched away from X

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Bug 84306 - VTswitching in console is broken while switched away from X

Summary:	VTswitching in console is broken while switched away from X

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Red Hat Raw Hide
Classification:	Retired
Component:	XFree86 (Show other bugs)
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Version:	1.0
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Mike A. Harris
QA Contact:	David Lawrence
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Blocks:	79578
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Reported:	2003-02-14 03:01 EST by Mike A. Harris
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:51 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2003-02-14 19:26:25 EST
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Description Mike A. Harris 2003-02-14 03:01:59 EST

The following CVS commit on Feb 10th, of CHANGELOG entry 864 has broken
VTswitching between VTs while switched away from the X server:
 
 865. Add private keysyms for the new XKB actions (XFree86 special keys),
      and move those actions to an XKB compatibility map.  This fixes
      side-effects (loss of auto-repeat and mousekeys functionality) of
      the way this was implemented previously (#5610, Ivan Pascal).
 
To reproduce:
 
1) Install XFree86 release from Feb 10th or later that has #865
 
2) startx
 
3) Switch away to any other VC with CTRL-ALT-Fn
 
4) Try to switch to another VC now other than the one the X
   server is running on.
 
 
Results:
 
The console switches only for a very short flash to the requested
console, then switches back.  You are effectively stuck on the
tty you've switched to, and can only switch back to the X server
itself.
 
 
Other info:
 
While switched away from the X server, if you kill the server,
then VT switching works again.
 
I have backed out the changes from that one commit, and the
problem is gone in build 20030212.0.

Comment 1 Mike A. Harris 2003-02-14 03:19:04 EST

Oops, I mean it was reverted with XFree86-4.2.99.901-revert-xkb-patch-865.patch
in 20030211.3 and later.

The latest CVS snapshot applies a correct fix for this problem, so
I have removed the above patch, and this problem should be fixed
in build: XFree86-4.2.99.901-20030213.0

Setting bug to MODIFIED pending testing.

Comment 2 Mike A. Harris 2003-02-14 19:26:25 EST

Confirmed.  Ivan's fix works.

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