Xorg7 + keyboard + special keys

[samuel]

hmmm i wasn't aware the wiki was that outdated. will check when having time

On Dec 1, 2007 1:56 PM, Guillaume <sirocco at gmx.fr> wrote:
> 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
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Lunar mailing list
> >> Lunar at lunar-linux.org
> >> http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/lunar
> >>
> >>
> > _______________________________________________
> > Lunar mailing list
> > Lunar at lunar-linux.org
> > http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/lunar
> >
>
> _______________________________________________
> Lunar mailing list
> Lunar at lunar-linux.org
> http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/lunar
>