XKB error message with Xorg-6.8.1

[Osho GG]

On Friday 19 November 2004 1:37 am, Lorincz Andras wrote:
> I've compiled xorg from cvs following the instructions on the cvs page
> and I'm using gnome. The section about keyboard in xorg.conf looks like
> this:
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>     Identifier    "Generic Keyboard"
>     Driver        "kbd"
>     Option        "XkbModel"    "pc105"
>     Option        "XkbLayout"    "us"
> EndSection
>
> There is no error message related to keyboard in Xorg.0.log and X works
> fine, but an error message appears whenever I log in (I'm using gdm)
> with the following text:
>
> Error activating XKB configuration.
> Probably internal X server problem.
>
> X server version data:
> The X.Org Foundation
> 60801099
>
> If you report this situation as a bug, please include:
> - The result of xprop -root | grep XKB
> - The result of gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/xkb
>
> and xprop -root | grep XKB gives me:
>
> _XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "xorg", "pc105", "us", "", ""
> _XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "xorg", "pc105", "us", "", ""
>
> and gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/xkb:
>
> layouts = [us]
>  model = pc104
>  overrideSettings = false
>  options = []
>
> actually  don't know why it says model = pc104 because I have pc105 in
> xorg.conf. This same error message appears when I go to
> Applications->Desktop Preferences->Keyboard and try to add keyboard
> layouts.
>
> How could I fix this?

I don't know what is the root cause of this but I had the same error and the 
same experience while trying to modify keyboard settings through 
gnome-control-center. The way I fixed this was to invoke gconf-editor and set 
the /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/xkb entries manually. 

Osho

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Osho