Problems after long-due emerge -uDN world

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Problems after long-due emerge -uDN world
\ Henk Boom (10 Oct 2007)
. \ Roman Zilka (11 Oct 2007)
. . \ Henk Boom (11 Oct 2007)
. \ Peter Alfredsen (11 Oct 2007)

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Subject:	Problems after long-due emerge -uDN world
Group:	Gentoo-user
From:	Henk Boom
Date:	10 Oct 2007

Hi, I did an update last week-end after not doing one since the spring
(I know, naughty me >_>). Aside from the really horrible libexpat
update which took me most of the weekend to fix, I'm having some
behaviour issues now, with which I would greatly appreciate help in
fixing.

First, my alt key seems not to work properly. It works fine in regular
programs (e.g. alt-f in firefox pulls down the file menu properly),
but not for wm or X-related things. For example, I can no longer use
ctrl-alt-fx to change to a VT from with X. Control-alt-backspace
_does_ work, and I can switch to a VT if I do it quick before before
it finishes restarting, at which point the shortcut works fine until I
get back into the X display. With my wm (xfwm), the keyboard shortcut
settings program will detect the alt key fine when I'm setting
shortcuts, but any shortcut involving alt will not work when I
actually try to use it. The normal alt-drag to move windows and such
doesn't work either.

The second problem is that all of my fonts in X are suddenly a couple
sizes too big. If I run "xrandr --dpi 75" the font sizes go back to
normal in programs I start afterward.

I followed the dpi guide on gentoo-wiki, but no DisplaySize setting in
my xorg.conf seems to make a difference. I see the following in
/var/log/Xorg.0.log when I try setting DisplaySize to 346 260:

...
(**) intel(0): Display dimensions: (346, 260) mm
(**) intel(0): DPI set to (75, 100)
...
(II) intel(0): Setting screen physical size to 270 x 203
...

This suggests to me that my settings are getting overruled somehow. I
am using x11-drivers/xf86-video-i810-2.1.0 with x11-base/xorg-x11-7.2.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Henk Boom
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