Re: xkbmap trouble... :-(
* [30/10/2003 16:27] Tom <tom@abwaerts.be>:
> Less than a week ago, my keyboard functioned quite properly. I have a
> Belgian azerty-layout, and there were only minor problems. A backslash,
> which should be AltGr + the key with < and > could only be typed by
> using AltGr + ). Other than that, everything just worked.
>
> Then somebody told me the solution to that tiny problem could be to
>
> wget -O /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/be
> http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/xc/programs/xkbcomp/
> symbols/pc/be?content-type=text/plain
>
> and afterwards setxkbmap "be", but instead of solving the problem, it
> only made things worse (I had no AltGr at all any more). Still later,
> the new problem *and* the previous problem were both solved by
> downloading be?rev=1.3&content-type=text/plain instead of the latest
> revision. I was quite happy about it, but it didn't last long.
>
> This morning, I logged in, and everything was back to the second stage:
> not even a "workaround" for my backslash, but just plainly no AltGr-key
> (meaning no at-sign, no hashes etc.). I thought getting things to where
> they were before I'd been so stupid to mess things up might be the best
> solution, so I downloaded the .deb of xlibs, and put the be keyboard
> layout therein (/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/be) instead of my own,
> guessing that the initial layout would then magically reappear. But it
> didn't; every time I try to 'setxkbmap be' or even 'setxkbmap -rules
> xfree86 -model pc -layout be -option ""', the only thing I get is "error
> loading new keyboard description".
>
> I just don't understand, it's the original file of the Debian package,
> that worked before, what error could that result in? (if only it told me
> what the error really was...)
>
> In a last moment of despair, I thought, let's just get XFree86 4.3, but
> the penguinpc sources are "not available at the moment".
>
> Could someone please tell me what might be the problem here? Why
> replacing the modified layout with the original one doesn't solve the
> problem? And what I could do about it?
No one? :( I really have no idea what I could do about it, so my final
option only seems to be a totally new installation...
Greets,
Tom
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