Xorg7 + keyboard + special keys

[Guillaume]

Ok,
Thanks for this info, I will move it back to /usr.
The wiki should be modified as it's written in Installation part : "The 
most commonly used prefix would be /usr/X11R7"

This is why I installed it in /usr/X11R7


samuel wrote:
> 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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