Re: Keymap problem when upgrading xfree86 in slink...
:: On 26 Mar 2000 19:09:10 -0300, Jeronimo Pellegrini <j.pellegrini@uol.com.br> said:
I just noticed... I can startx as root, but not as ordinary user; it
seems to have something to do with that problem.
> Hi.
> I've just reinstalled my system, and something strange happens...
> (I'm running slink on a Pentium II)
> I have a S3 Trio 3D/2X video card... Which is not supported by xfree
> 3.3.3 (which came with slink 2.1). So I first installed slink, then
> upgraded xfree86 from:
> deb http://www.debian.org/~vincent xfree-upgrade main
> It worked fine, but after it runs the setup script, X does work in the
> test.. But when I go back to text mode, it says
> | System: `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w 1 -R/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb
> | -xkm -m us_intl -em1 "The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp)
> | reports:"-emp "> "-eml Ėrrors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X
> | server"keymap/xfree86 compiled/xfree86.xkm'
> I had installed slink once, and upgraded by downloading tar.gz files
> and installing them manually... That worked with no problems (except
> that dpkg didn't know I had a new version of X).
> I tried to install it yesterday, using apt-get to upgrade X... And I
> had the same problem I have today. If I enter X, of course, I'll have
> backspace and delete being mapped identically...
> What could be wrong? Should I hve upgraded to slink 2.1r4 first (does
> this make any difference? That would be my next step, but I wanted to
> have X running before anything else)
> Thanks a lot,
> J.
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Jeronimo Pellegrini
Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil
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