despite xkbdes, certain files not present [was: Re: Keyboard-problems (german)]

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Sun Oct 15 03:51:35 PDT 2006


On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 03:02:36PM +0200, Jens Stroebel wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 07:58:14PM +0200, Jens Stroebel wrote:
>  
> > Anyway, unfortunately the installation of said package/module
> > didn't change anything. There is still no modifier available :((
> > and so there is 
> > 	a) no way to change to console
> > 	b) no way to get @ | and other modifier-dependent symbols
> > 	   out of X
> > 
> > It makes no difference if this is xkeyboard-config (0.9 from tar)
> > or a fresh cvs-checkout of xkbdesc.
> 
> 	after a diff beween the "working" Xorg
> 		and the ones not so....
> I found a good lot of files (see attachement) which
> 
> 	a) enable xorgcfg to function (didn't, forgot to mention that)
> 	b) make the keyboard-behaviour work as expected
> 
> I can (of course) implant those in the Xorg-builds we do now,
> and I did that on the 3 machines with git-ted xorg we have in use now.
> But I'm sure they are normally either part of the xorg or some other
> project like xkeyboard-config/xkbdesc .. ?
> 
> If anyone could enlighten me about where those should normally
> come from, that woulld be nice.

Try --with-xkb-base=/usr/share/X11/xkb when building xkeyboard-config.
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