Bug 84306 - VTswitching in console is broken while switched away from X
Summary: VTswitching in console is broken while switched away from X
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Raw Hide
Classification: Retired
Component: XFree86
Version: 1.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mike A. Harris
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks: 79578
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Reported: 2003-02-14 08:01 UTC by Mike A. Harris
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:51 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-02-15 00:26:25 UTC

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Description Mike A. Harris 2003-02-14 08:01:59 UTC 
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 08:19:04 UTC 
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 2003-02-15 00:26:25 UTC 
Confirmed.  Ivan's fix works.
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