I've been trying to solve my problem of unusable virtual consoles (the F1 through F6 ones) in XF 4.01 for weeks now. At one point I decided that it was a chipset problem, but I have since swapped motherboards and the problem was unchanged. I'm a Gnome user, but I've also been trying out the KDE2 debs and yesterday I noticed that the consoles work OK in KDE2 but are still broken in Gnome.
I copied some XFree86.0.log files and diff'ed them, finding no significant differences. Then I saved the output of xdpyinfo in KDE2 and in Gnome and got this difference: < focus: window 0x1e00009, revert to PointerRoot --- > focus: window 0x140001b, revert to Parent 66,70c66,70 < current input event mask: 0xf84033 < KeyPressMask KeyReleaseMask EnterWindowMask < LeaveWindowMask KeymapStateMask SubstructureNotifyMask < SubstructureRedirectMask FocusChangeMask PropertyChangeMask < ColormapChangeMask --- > current input event mask: 0x5a20bd > KeyPressMask ButtonPressMask ButtonReleaseMask > EnterWindowMask LeaveWindowMask PointerMotionHintMask > ButtonMotionMask StructureNotifyMask SubstructureNotifyMask > SubstructureRedirectMask PropertyChangeMask One other symptom: tuxracer works great in KDE2, but in Gnome, the keyboard controls don't work, although the mouse does. So, I'm suspecting that the problem is the focus difference. Does anybody know how to set this in Gnome? The sawfish focus dialog in the Gnome Control Center doesn't seem to change it.
