Re: XKB broken

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:05:55 +0200
Jonathan Kaye <jdkaye10@yahoo.es> wrote:

> Celejar wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On my uptodate Sid system, XKB has suddenly broken.  None of my XKB
> > settings in /etc/X11/xorg.conf are active, /var/log/xorg.0.log contains
> > the line "(WW) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB
> > keymap" and setxkbmap (even without any options or flags) invariably
> > returns "Error loading new keyboard description".  Anyone (Florian?)
> > seen this or know what I'm supposed to do? I don't recall touching any
> > Xorg settings or installing any Xorg stuff recently, but I may be
> > forgetting something.
> > 
> > Celejar
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> Hi Celejar,
> I don't know if this is your problem but in the upgrade from
> xserver-xorg-input-keyboard 1.1 to 1.2 the name of the keyboard driver
> changed. In xorg.conf you need to change the driver name from "keyboard"
> to "kbd" in the Input Devices section relating to the keyboard.
> This may or may not be the cause of your problem.

Thanks - I already have 'kbd'.

> Cheers,
> Jonathan

Celejar
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