Re: Painful upgrade from XFree86 to X.Org
Hey Jim,
On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 14:34 -0800, Jim McCloskey wrote:
> <mondalaci@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > After upgrading from XFree86 to X.Org bad, bad things
> > happened
> > to me.
> >
> > More specifically:
> >
> > 1) I cannot switch to the consoles with Alt-F1 - F8.
>
> Perhaps my post from a while ago:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/08/msg00644.html
>
> is relevant and might help.
>
> This part sounds like it might be the same problem you're having:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 3. Most serious problem:
>
> (EE) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap
>
> The most visible symptom here was that I could no longer use
> Ctl-Alt-Fn to get back to the n-th virtual console from a running X
> session. The solution in this case was to make a link from:
>
> /etc/X11/xkb/rules/xfree86 to /etc/X11/xkb/rules/xorg
>
> and also from:
>
> /etc/X11/xkb/rules/xfree86.lst to /etc/X11/xkb/rules/xorg.1st.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Thanks a lot!
Oddly the xorg* files were missing from /etc/X11/xkb/rules/ despite
their package was installed so I copied these files from the .deb
My Emacs Delete-Backspace issue is completely solved now.
I can also switch to the console, but I cannot do it under Gnome. Gnome
must have some evil ways for disabling this essential functionality and
I don't how could I workaround it, but I'm still happy with these
results anyway.
Keyboard repetiton doesn't have that problem anymore.
So thanks again, I'm a happy chappy.
--
Laci
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