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Re: Cygwin XFree ignores the keyboard


Edgar,

No, I never got a reply. I have been monitoring the list to see if a solution
might come along. Recently there has been some traffic about "no keyboard" so
I'm planning to try the lastest update to see if it fixes the problem.

Jim (not Jeff)


--- Edgar_Camacho@oxy.com wrote:
> Jeff,
> 
> You posted the below issue in the Xfree mail list. I am experiencing the
> same problem. Did you figure it out ? Or Did you get a response from the
> user community ?  If so, please drop me a line.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Edgar Camacho
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> Cygwin XFree ignores the keyboard
> *	From: Jim Scheef <jscheef at yahoo dot com> 
> *	To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com 
> *	Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 12:34:38 -0700 (PDT) 
> *	Subject: Cygwin XFree ignores the keyboard 
> *	Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com 
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I have been using Cygwin XFree86 for some time on a Winbook X1 running
> XP
> Pro, and it was working great with several Linux machines. A couple of
> months
> back it started to ignore the keyboard. IOW, I type and nothing happens
> in
> any Xwindows frame which makes things rather difficult. The mouse still
> works. 
> 
> First I tried doing a 'reinstall' to no effect. Then I uninstalled
> everything
> and did a complete reinstall with the latest versions of Cygwin and
> Xfree86.
> The reinstall seemed to go well but I saw one script error reporting a
> 'null'
> value somewhere. At the time, there was no way to know (that I knew of)
> to
> see exactly which package gave the error so I ignored it and went on.
> 
> This issue is not addressed in the FAQ so now I turn to you. All help
> will be
> greatly appreciated.
> 
> Jim 
> 
> 
> 


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