Bug#189298: xserver-xfree86: X-server is unable to load XKB keymaps
On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 02:04:20PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 05:44:44PM +0300, Sami J. Laine wrote:
> > Package: xserver-xfree86
> > Version: 4.2.1-3
> > Severity: important
> >
> > X-server doesn't seem to be able to load XKB keymaps anymore, not even
> > the default ie. one with US-mappings.
> >
> > This makes the system difficult to use for anyone who uses a non-US
> > keyboard (for example, tilde and curly brackets are not available and
> > makes C coding, etc. impossible).
>
> What was the last version of the xserver-xfree86 package you used that
> didn't have this problem? I only started getting a lot of complaints
> about XKB with XFree86 4.2.1-6 (because I backported fixes for memory
> leaks and crashes -- figures that they'd break other stuff).
I used XFree86 4.3.0, which I downloaded as pre-compiled binaries from
ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/, until I noticed that current debian-testing does
carry somewhat recent XFree86 4.x.x release too (in one of my systems I
use Asus A7N-266VM w/ integrated GeForce2 MX GPU and is not supported in
previous releases).
So how I did to get into this "state of affairs"? I used to run Debian
stable, which I upgraded into testing using dist-upgrade after I changed
/etc/apt/sources.list.
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Sami Laine @ UTU, +358504118464
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