Bug#285092: xlibs bug "Couldn't load XKB keymap ..." with de-nodeadkeys

[barbier@linuxfr.org (Denis Barbier)]

reassign 285092 xlibs
tags 285092 = unreproducible
thanks

On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 04:50:39PM +0100, Günter Milde wrote:
> Package: xlibs-data
> Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8
> Severity: normal
> Tags: l10n
> 
> After updating xlibs from 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 to 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8, the "<>"-key of
> my German keyboard stopped to send ASCII strings in X.
> 
> In the net, I found the advice to purge and reinstall xlibs. After that, the
> "<>"-key works, but Alt-R and Alt-L both send an escape character. 
> This makes programming almost impossible, as e.g. brackets, curly braces and
> backslash are only reachable with Alt-L == AltGr.
> 
> grep XKB /var/log/XFree86.0.log reveales
> 
> /var/log/XFree86.0.log:(**) XKB: rules: "xfree86"
> /var/log/XFree86.0.log:(**) XKB: model: "pc102"
> /var/log/XFree86.0.log:(**) XKB: layout: "de"
> /var/log/XFree86.0.log:(**) XKB: variant: "nodeadkeys"
> /var/log/XFree86.0.log:Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap

Could you please send the keyboard section from your XF86Config-4 file,
and the whole portion of your XFree86.0.log about keyboard
configuration?
You may also read in /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz the question
"Why doesn't my '<>' key work?".  This seems to be a different issue,
but this section has nice instructions on how to investigate these
problems, e.g. you could tell us what is displayed by xev when pressing
Alt keys.

Denis