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- From: bvs@BitBlocks.com (Bakul Shah)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Motif on X386???
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.062455.12847@BitBlocks.com>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 06:24:55 GMT
- References: <1992Aug17.140857.3882@lgc.com> <1992Aug18.015024.8369@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <1992Aug18.174802.9845@BitBlocks.com> <090m_#b.hasty@netcom.com>
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- hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes:
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- >In article <1992Aug18.174802.9845@BitBlocks.com> bvs@BitBlocks.com (Bakul Shah) writes:
- >>Make sure you are using the latest com.c driver (with select()
- >>bug fixed). But even then there is some problem with the mouse
- >>code in X386 as the very first button press is not seen until
- >>after you either release the button or move the mouse a bit.
- >>
- >>If you wish to track this problem down, check out file
- >>$X11R5/mit/server/ddx/x386/x386Io.c. Routine x386MseEvents()
- >>seems to be the culprit.
- >>
- >Rich (rich@rice.edu) already fix this problem in the next upcoming release
- >of X386 1.2E 1.0.2 for 386bsd 0.1, please ask him for the fix. The problem
- >in a nutshell is that X386Io.c is not setting the cflag. the fix was also
- >previously posted by me.
-
- I have already applied that patch but I still see the same symptom.
- May be this only happens with a Microsoft compatible mouse.
-
- >Additionally, there are problems with the X server not grabbing the keyboard,
- >this problem has been also resolved.
-
- >So just ask Rich when he is going to release X again. Hopefully, it will be
- >soon. I just hate to see the same problems being reported over and over again
- >even though there has been previous postings relating to the problem with
- >suggested fixes.
-
- I too hate repititions but I think this problem is different from
- tty.c_cflag not being set in x386SetSpeed() in the #ifdef __386BSD__
- leg.
-
- -- Bakul Shah <bvs@bitblocks.com>
-