On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 11:38:04PM +0100, alessandro medici wrote: > On my acer tm290 i don't have correct result from xf86 (and sorry for my poor > english language): > > on boot from startx: > > The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: > > Error: Can't find file "aliases" for the keycodes include > > Exiting > > Abandoning keycodes files "default" > Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server > Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap > > that is. > > On the log /var/log/XFree86.0.log.0 none (for my) of relevant: > > XFree86 Version 4.3.0 (Debian 4.3.0-0ds4v2.0.ipv6.r0.1 20030503154017 > @trider-g7.ext.fabbione.net) Okay, first of all, that X server release is over 6 months old. If you're going to use experimental 4.3.0 packages, please use the ones from Debian experimental: # experimental deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ ../project/experimental main deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ ../project/experimental main As to your actual problem, perhaps it is the same as this gentleman's: On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 11:32:00PM +0100, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 05:27:32PM +0100, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote: > > Hi, > > > > After upgrading to 4.3.0-0pre1v4 from the latest 4.2.1 I have keyboard > > problems: my shift, altgr and windoze keys don't work anymore. > > /var/log/XFree86.0.log.old says: > > > > Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap > > Ok, found. > > xlibs-data had not replaced a missing /etc/X11/xkb/keycodes/aliases > file. A dpkg re-run with --force-confmiss fixed it. Does the same solution work for you? -- G. Branden Robinson | I must despise the world which does Debian GNU/Linux | not know that music is a higher branden@debian.org | revelation than all wisdom and http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | philosophy. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
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