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Bug#387917: xserver-xorg: xkb-data 0.8-12exp2 (experimental) crashes radeon ibook X server



Denis

On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 11:22:02PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 01:56:14PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
> > *** 2:
> > 
> > xkbcomp :0
> > 
> > result from last command is attached. Please note that my keyboard
> > settings at the time of this command should have been set by the local
> > ~/.xmodmap, if everything went as I expect. ... :)
> 
> Great, I can reproduce this crash with your file, thanks.
> BTW, why do you have an .xmodmap file?

Several reasons:

One, because I need stability on a keyboard. I'm on unstable. This
means I have to take into account that my keyboard is changed if I
pull the wrong upgrade, which means lots of work if I don't have a
usable ~/.xmodmap ... :)

Second: This Mac keyboard here, and I'm talking about the hardware,
seems to be a sick joke - at best: I have two <ENTER> keys, the real
one that probably nearly everyone has anywhere and the one left of the
<Left> arrow key. I.e. both are set not very far from each other. Such
hardware might be nice for a Macintosh junkie who simply wants to be
some sort of "special" - even if that means to become completely
retarded .. and there's more to rant about, I'll just stop here .. :)

With ~/.xmodmap I'm basically trying to get the best out of a notebook
keyboard that has, different to the big PC105 (?) keyboards, a smaller
number of keys: f.e. I don't have a numeric keypad. This means I try
to get every character/key value mapping just once, not 2 or 3 times
...

Thinking a bit more it might also be because I don't like the idea
Jobs' RDF would take over the way I type ... :)

Thanks, Colin, also for your new xkb-data version ... With your new
version it seems I can safely test the settings here, especially the
-- how you you call that? 2nd and 3rd level keys? That is @, ¥, ®, |,
€ etc. ...

Please holler if you need me testing your software.

Nice Weekend
Wolfgang

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