On Sun, 2010-09-12 at 17:53 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 16:49:44 +0200, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
>
> > Package: xkb-data
> > Version: 1.8-1
> > Severity: important
> >
> > After updating my desktop machine to squeeze my keyboard no longer works
> > (ok 3 keys on my keyboard among them "u" work). This happens even if I
> > start with an empty/no xorg.conf.
> >
> > Starting X manually I noticed this on stderr:
> >
> > The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> > > Error: Can't find file "en_us" for symbols include
> > > Exiting
> > > Abandoning symbols file "default"
> > Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
> > (EE) Unable to open evdev device "/dev/input/event4".
> > (EE) PreInit returned NULL for "Microsoft Natural® Ergonomic Keyboard 4000"
> >
> >
> > So I did a strace and creating this symlink fixed it for me
> >
> > # cd /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols
> > # ln -s us en_us
> >
> > Is this a problem/misconfiguration on my side and intended or should
> > en_us be shipped indeed?
> >
> Sounds like a misconfiguration to me. What was in your xorg.conf before
> the upgrade?
IIRC
Option "XkbLayout" "en_US'
> What's in /etc/default/keyboard now?
( I did not even know this file exists )
XKBMODEL="microsoft"
XKBLAYOUT="en_us"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS="ctrl:nocaps"
let me guess - there should be us in there only?
> Cheers,
> Julien
Soeren
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