xkb keymap fails to load with modular build

Johannes Engel j-engel at gmx.de
Wed Nov 28 03:13:27 PST 2007


Dan Nicholson schrieb:
> What do you have in /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules? What keyboard data are you using?
#> ll /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  28005 22. Sep 06:15 base
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  25005 22. Sep 06:15 base.lst
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 951291 22. Sep 06:15 base.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     91 22. Sep 06:15 README
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   3247 22. Sep 06:15 sgi
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   2342 22. Sep 06:15 sun
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 206813 22. Sep 06:15 sun.xml
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      4  7. Okt 22:30 xfree86 -> base
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      8  7. Okt 22:30 xfree86.lst -> base.lst
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      8  7. Okt 22:30 xfree86.xml -> base.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    794 22. Sep 06:15 xfree98
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1184 22. Sep 06:15 xkb.dtd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      4  7. Okt 22:30 xorg -> base
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      8  7. Okt 22:30 xorg.lst -> base.lst
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      8  7. Okt 22:30 xorg.xml -> base.xml

What do you mean by keyboard data?
> 
> If you're using xkeyboard-config, it defaults to only installing the
> rules as "base", so you can try to set that for "XkbRules". There is a
> build time option --with-xkb-rules-symlink which will setup symlinks
> to the "base" rules. I build with --with-xkb-rules-symlink=xorg, which
> allows Xorg to work out of the box.
OK, I will try.

Greetings, Johannes



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