18 Oct
2004
18 Oct
'04
7:55 p.m.
On Sunday 17 October 2004 16:02, Eric Dondelinger wrote:
Hi,
I ran myself into some stupid trouble with my notebook here.
Thing is, I wanted to play around with the X.org X11 server a bit - this
didn't work out too well (froze my system as soon as I tried to activate
the driver for my synaptics touchpad), so I reverted to xfree86.
Now it seems that the keymaps don't get loaded properly by the X11
server. Symptom is, I can't access any combinations with Alt-Gr,
including such things as the pipe character or the @ (copy/pasted now),
which is extremely irritating.
Oh nice, this is 'nice' to hear so I don't need to test x.org on my laptop
;)
I found the following in /var/log/XFree86.0.log:
(II) Keyboard "Keyboard1" handled by legacy driver
Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap
(II) Server_Terminate keybinding not found
When I try setting things manually using setxkbmap, I get the following:
# setxkbmap -v -layout fr_CH
Warning! Multiple definitions of keyboard layout
Using command line, ignoring X server
Trying to build keymap using the following components:
keycodes: xfree86+aliases(qwerty)
types: complete
compat: complete
symbols: en_US(pc105)+fr_CH
geometry: pc(pc105)
Error loading new keyboard description
If I try loading an US layout, it also fails.
My /etc/X11/XF86Config says the following about the keyboard:
shouldn't it be /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (with an emphasize on '-4' !)
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "Keyboard"
Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "fr_CH"
EndSection
The keymaps / locales etc. for fr_CH are on the system:
Is this keybord def also well represented in the Screen section ?
# ls -l `locate fr_CH`
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 1202 Oct 16 15:16
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/keymap/sgi/fr_CH -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1457 Oct 16
11:26 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/fr_CH -r--r--r-- 1 root root 722 Oct
16 11:26 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh/fr_CH -rw-r--r-- 1 root
root 4524 Oct 17 12:34 /usr/share/i18n/locales/fr_CH -rw-r--r-- 1 root
root 961 Aug 21 13:12 /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwertz/fr_CH-latin1.map.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 903 Aug 21 13:12
/usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwertz/fr_CH.map.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 805
Aug 21 13:12 /usr/share/keymaps/mac/all/mac-fr_CH-latin1.map.gz
I did some googling, found some hints, but nothing really working.
Any ideas on how I could fix this?
TIA, Eric
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