Re: [ch@zpr.uni-koeln.de: problems with keyboard and 4.0.1-11]
Am Donnerstag, 14. Dezember 2000 22:06 schrieb Seth Arnold:
> God, I would love to know how the rest of the four billion people on the
> planet cope with their own character set. It would be nice to help him
> out, but someone else is going to have to do it. :(
>
> * Branden Robinson <branden@deadbeast.net> [001214 08:51]:
> > I don't really know much about un-American keymaps. Pinko comme furrin
> > stuff! <tobacco spit>
> >
> > Kidding aside, can someone help him?
> >
> > ----- Forwarded message from Christian Hagemeier <ch@zpr.uni-koeln.de>
> > -----
> >
> > From: Christian Hagemeier <ch@zpr.uni-koeln.de>
> > To: branden@debian.org
> > Subject: problems with keyboard and 4.0.1-11
> > Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 14:50:34 +0100 (CET)
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> > Delivered-To: branden@deadbeast.net
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> > <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012141439030.8766-100000@aragorn.mi.uni-koeln.de>
> >
> > Hi Branden,
> >
> > finally I tried to upgrade to XF 4.0 using my debian potato installation
> > and adding the relevant packages from woody "by hand" (using dpkg).
> >
> > And surprisingly nearly everything works correctly. Good job!!!
> >
> > The only problem I have got is to get the right configuration for
> > my (german) keyboard. The problem is that when I try to use the
> > [Alt Gr]-key it does not work, so symbols like "|" or "@" do not appear
> > to be available.
> >
> > The corresponding part of my XF86Config-4 looks like this:
> >
> > ----------------------------
> > Section "InputDevice"
> > Identifier "Keyboard0"
> > Driver "keyboard"
> > Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
> > Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
> > Option "XkbLayout" "de"
> > Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
> > EndSection
> > ----------------------------
> >
> > Everytime I start the X server, using the call
> > XFree86 -depth 16 -dpi 100
> > I get the following output (irrelevant lines deleted, "..." inserted):
> >
> > ----------------------------
> > ...
> > ...
> > (==) ServerLayout "XFree86 Configured"
> > (**) |-->Screen "Screen0" (0)
> > (**) | |-->Monitor "Monitor0"
> > (**) | |-->Device "Card0"
> > (**) |-->Input Device "Mouse0"
> > (**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard0"
> > (**) XKB: rules: "xfree86"
> > (**) XKB: model: "pc102"
> > (**) XKB: layout: "de"
> > (**) XKB: variant: "nodeadkeys"
> > ...
> > ...
> > (II) Keyboard "Keyboard0" handled by legacy driver
> > (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse0" (type: MOUSE)
> > Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
!Here I smell something fishy!
> > ...
> > -----------------------------
> >
> > The last line seems to be the problem (or better: diagnoses the
> > problem!). I guess that XKB does not find the appropriate keymaps.
> > Looking at an other computer (using potato version 3.3.6 of XFree) in
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/ there are a lot more keymaps and so on, some
> > sound quite good ("de", "xfree86" and so on). But just copying the
> > appropriate files (or those that seem to be the appropriate ones to
> > me) doesn't change the problem.
> >
> > What am I doing wrong? Or Did I just missed a package to install? Is this
> > a known problem with no solution yet?
> >
> > Thanks for your help,
> > Christian
> >
> > --
> > Christian Hagemeier ch@zpr.uni-koeln.de
> > Zentrum fuer Angewandte Informatik Tel.: 0221/470-6038
> > Universitaet zu Koeln Fax: 0221/470-5160
> > Weyertal 80
> > 50931 Koeln
> >
> >
Sure,
but the Option "XkbLayout" "de" should be normally sufficient. I get all the
stuff on my keyboard under XF4.01 with a german layout. Of course I can also
supply my XF86Config, but there is another thing which shouldn't show up. And
that is the above marked line. I guess there is a broken symlink somewhere in
your system. I once had this also. But I don't recall how to correct this.
Greetings
Michael
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