On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 04:31:35PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 12:46:03PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > What's a "pc10104" keyboard? > > Well spotted - it appears to be a regexp gone wrong, sorry about that. > > After further experimentation, the following combinations result in broken e > and c keys, with no warning or error messages in /var/log/XFree86.0.log: > > pc10104 ukgb > pc104 ukgb > pc104 uk > > Perhaps the Xserver could provide some kind of alert when an invalid > keyboard/keymap is selected; It generally does; both to its logfile in /var/log and to standard error. If you mean it should draw its own dialog box on the screen even without benefit of an installed widget library, I daresay that's unlikely to happen anytime soon. > or maybe they are valid combinations and are stale files on my computer? Reinstalling the xlibs package with the "--force-confnew --force-confmiss" options to dpkg would take care of that if it is the case. > The combination of pc104 and gb works fine for me. Ah, that's good to hear. > For future reference, where is the list of acceptable keyboard varieties and > keymaps kept? There's not "a" list (mainly because it would be huge), but /etc/X11/xkb/rules/xfree86 may get you off to a start, of sorts. Do you regard this bug as resolved? -- G. Branden Robinson | You should try building some of the Debian GNU/Linux | stuff in main that is branden@debian.org | modern...turning on -Wall is like http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | turning on the pain. -- James Troup
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