Re: XKB broken

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 10:50:05 -0400, Celejar wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:32:14 +0200 Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 15:42:04 -0400, 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".

[...]

> > If you post your configuration I can try if it works on my system.
> 
> Thanks, Florian.  I'm attaching my current xorg.conf.

Your keyboard section works when I put it in my xorg.conf. I get the US
keyboard layout, CTRL and CAPSLOCK are switched and ALT + SHIFT toggles
between US and GB layout. (I checked the last point with SHIFT + 3,
which produces "#" or "£" depending on the layout.)

I don't see any keyboard-related error messages or warnings in my Xorg
log; setxkbmap works normally, too:

$ setxkbmap -print
xkb_keymap {
        xkb_keycodes  { include "xfree86+aliases(qwerty)"       };
        xkb_types     { include "complete"      };
        xkb_compat    { include "complete"      };
        xkb_symbols   { include "pc+us+gb:2+group(alt_shift_toggle)+ctrl(swapcaps)"     };
        xkb_geometry  { include "pc(pc104)"     };
};

Maybe we should compare the versions of xkb-related packages and
dependencies. Here is what I have:

$ aptitude -F '%p%30v' search '~i(input-kbd|xkb-data|xbase-clients|~Rxbase-clients)' | awk '{print $1,$2}'
cpp 4:4.1.2-3
libc6 2.6-3
libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1.2
libfreetype6 2.3.5-1+b1
libfs6 2:1.0.0-4
libgl1-mesa-glx 6.5.2-7
libice6 2:1.0.3-3
libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-2
libsm6 2:1.0.3-1+b1
libx11-6 2:1.1.1-1
libxau6 1:1.0.3-2
libxaw7 1:1.0.3-3
libxcursor1 1:1.1.8-2
libxext6 1:1.0.3-2
libxft2 2.1.12-2
libxi6 2:1.1.1-1
libxinerama1 1:1.0.2-1
libxkbfile1 1:1.0.4-1
libxmu6 1:1.0.3-1
libxmuu1 1:1.0.3-1
libxrandr2 2:1.2.1-1
libxrender1 1:0.9.2-1
libxss1 1:1.1.2-1
libxt6 1:1.0.5-3
libxtrap6 1:1.0.0-4
libxtst6 1:1.0.2-1
libxv1 1:1.0.3-1
libxxf86dga1 2:1.0.1-2
libxxf86vm1 1:1.0.1-2
x11-common 1:7.2-5
xbase-clients 1:7.2.ds2-2
xkb-data 1.0~cvs.20070721-1
xserver-xorg-input-kbd 1:1.2.0-1+1.2.1
zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-5

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