If you recently lost ability to switch from X console to text consoles or your non US chars can not be typed in - read this

[samuel verstraete]

On 4/1/07, Zbigniew Luszpinski <zbiggy at o2.pl> wrote:
> Saturday 31 of March 2007 19:44:41 samuel verstraete napisał(a):
> > no
> >
> > wrong wrong wrong
> >
> > xkbdata is deprecated... you should no longer use or install it.
> > Install xkeyboard-config instead and configure your keyboard
> > correctly. It *HAS* to work. It works here, it works on jaime's
> > computer and afaik moritz has tested it as well
> >
> > gr,S.
>
> Maybe it is deprecated but works.
> xkeyboard-config does not at all.
> If you knew xkeyboard-config breaks configuration, users should be warned.
> Example configuration diff should be provided so we could apply changes.
> Could you tell me what is wrong with my xorg.conf:
>     Option "XkbRules"  "xorg"
>     Option "XkbModel"  "acpi"  #"scorpius"
>     Option "XkbLayout" "pl"
> I tried also:
> Option "XkbKeycodes" "xorg"
> Option "XkbTypes" "default"
> Option "XkbSymbols" "pl_PL(pc104)"
> Option "XkbGeometry" "pc(pc104)"
> Option "XkbCompat" "basic+pc+acpi"
>
> And still nothing. lining xkbdata solves problem.
> Maybe we should wait for full official 1.0 version of xkeyboard-config?

what error do you get when you:
setxkbmap -rules xorg -model acpi -layout pl  ?
Might this be the error? :
Error loading new keyboard description

Do you still get the error when you mkdir -p /var/lib/xkb ?

and do you have the file /usr/share/X11/xkb/compiled ? which should be
a symlink to /var/lib/xkb

This is a bit awkward and might well be a bug in xkeyboard-config...
still reinstall xkeyboard-config and try this plz... I'd like it very
much if you could open a bug report for this. Even if all is solved
with the creation of the /var/lib/xkb.

thnx,S




>
> > On 3/31/07, Zbigniew Luszpinski <zbiggy at o2.pl> wrote:
> > > If you recently noticed that console switching from X is not possible or
> > > the non US chars can not be typed anymore -  lin xkbdata. The
> > > xkeyboard-config module which appeared recently is in conflict with
> > > xkbdata so tries to remove xkbdata.
> > >
> > > If lining back xkbdata fails with error when xkeyboard-config is
> > > installed remove (or better rename) /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules
> > > Then lin xkbdata again. This time it will not fail.
> > >
> > > have a nice day,
> > > Zbigniew 'zbiggy' Luszpinski
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