Re: [ch@zpr.uni-koeln.de: problems with keyboard and 4.0.1-11]
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
> X-Sender: ch@aragorn.mi.uni-koeln.de
> Message-ID: <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
> ...
> ...
> -----------------------------
>
> 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
>
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
>
> --
> G. Branden Robinson | America is at that awkward stage. It's
> Debian GNU/Linux | too late to work within the system, but
> branden@deadbeast.net | too early to shoot the bastards.
> http://deadbeast.net/~branden/ | --Claire Wolfe
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