I am using only a mouse. I unplugged the mouse, but am getting similar behavior. Something of interest, however: the keyboard inputs seem to be working fine until a few seconds after I "login root", at which point the emulated VGA screen blinks, and the wonky behavior starts. -----Original Message-----From: Bengt Richter Reply-To: Bengt Richter To: Jan Nieuwenhuizen Cc: Christopher Howard , 40542@debbugs.gnu.orgSubject: Re: bug#40542: wip-hurm-vm build failureDate: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 18:57:55 +0200 Hi Janneke, On +2020-04-14 07:46:48 +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Christopher Howard writes: > > I'm having some trouble playing around with the VM, because a lot > > ofweird things are happening with keyboard input into the > > qemuwindow. It seems like the meta keys (shift, ctrl, alt, super) > > arebehaving in strange ways, or that terminal state is getting > > corruptedsomehow. E.g., sometimes shift key stops working, or the > > cursors jumpsup to the middle of the screen, or text gets garbled. > > Since yesterday I've been seeing that too. I'm pretty sure that if > youbuild a VM from core-uupdates, the console is fine. > I haven't looked into the details of the console/tty setup, so I > musthave messed-up something. Sorry! Could it be a sensitive touch-pad? (are there configs to adjust triggering on motion?)(I have to disable mouse/touchpad input to edit unless I'm super carefulnot to brush it with my sleeve or palm) > Meanwhile we do have ssh login :-) > The startup now goes like this > startup -> runsystem -> init -> runsystem.hurd -> rc -> shepherd > and; i would like to move towards > -startup -> rc -> shepherd > if that's possible. > Greetings,janneke > -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen | GNU LilyPond > http://lilypond.org > Freelance IT http://JoyofSource.com | Avatar® > http://AvatarAcademy.com > > > -- Christopher Howard Enterprise Solutions Manager Alaska Satellite Internet PO Box 70, Ester, AK 99725 3239 La Ree Way, Fairbanks, AK 99709 907.451.0088 1.888.396.5623 www.alaskasatelliteinternet.com