Text-mode issues

[Alexander Gottwald]

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).


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	ago