A modicum of success!

[elfs]

I had three geek successes today. The first was that I did get X11R7 running. It has good and bad points. Good: 3D works, resume from suspension works without messing up a playing movie, some compositing features work. Bad: it takes up more virtual memory and some older features aren't Unicode compliant, which breaks cut-and-paste. The most notable of these is xterm, meaning that I now must use gnome-terminal. Fortunately, it has an xterm-compliance mode, so all of my existing console apps working without reconfiguration.

Two: I've figured out the the IR keyboard I bought from a junker for $1 is a Corporate WebTV prototype board. It says so when I open it up. Even better, I figured out why it wasn't working: someone had bumped it hard enough to jar a physical connector attaching the battery pack to the circuit board. I pushed it back in and hey, I've got signal!

Three: I got LIRC running on the laptop, with no kernel panics. Unfortunately, this keyboard is really weird, and it'll take some hacking to make it work right. But it's a start. But I can make the remote control features operate correctly. And no conflicts with the Palm V interface drivers, either.

Comments

[lucky-otter.livejournal.com]

"some older features aren't Unicode compliant"
I think there's some words wrong/missing here, but I'm not sure what. Maybe "programs"?

I like urxvt for terminal emulators. It's a lot smaller than gnome-terminal, and it supports Unicode.