Xorg7 + keyboard + special keys

[samuel]

it is there because it was needed.... and i haven't removed it because
it works just fine for normal ppl (ppl installing XOrg7 in /usr).
Anyway you are going to have problems with your xorg installation in
/usr/X11R7 so i don't think we need to support it... it will break a
lot of other programs anyway

On Dec 1, 2007 3:47 AM, Guillaume <sirocco at gmx.fr> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've done an update of Xorg and I lost access to special keys "alt gr"
> ... on a french keyboard
> I've choosen to install Xorg7 in /usr/X11R7
>
> I've spent quite a lot of quite understanding why I lost special keys
> and found this :
>
> 1)
> g at gnux ~ $ strace setxkbmap -model pc105 -layout fr
> (...)
> open("/usr/X11R7/share/X11/xkb/rules/xorg-C", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No
> such file or directory)
> open("/usr/X11R7/share/X11/xkb/rules/xorg", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No
> such file or directory)
> (...)
> Couldn't find rules file (xorg)
>
> 2)
> I've searched for xkb rules and they were installed in :
> /usr/share/X11/xkb not in /usr/X11R7/share/X11/xkb
>
> 3)
> I looked at xkeyboard-config module and found this in the BUILD file :
> OPTS+="--with-xkb-base=/usr/share/X11/xkb --enable-compat-rules \
>
> I removed --with-xkb-base=/usr/share/X11/xkb and everything works great.
> So posting here because I don't understand why this option is here. This
> seems to be an error for me.
>
>
> Guillaume
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