Failure in detecting keyboard

[Dan Nicholson]

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Peter Hutterer
<peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 09:17:12AM +0530, Amey wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>                I am a final year graduate student and I am trying to
>> configure X server.In that when I tried to run X server after all the
>> configuration done with following commands:
>>
>> *1) sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop
>> 2) sudo startx -- /opt/mpx/bin/Xorg verbose :0   (P.S. I installed all the
>> packages with prefix /opt/mpx )
>> *
>> then X server didn't run initialy  and I got the following log:
>>
>> (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /opt/mpx/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so
>> (II) GLX: Initialized DRISWRAST GL provider for screen 0
>> (II) NV(0): Setting screen physical size to 338 x 211
>> (EE) Error compiling keymap (server-0)
>> (EE) XKB: Couldn't compile keymap
>> XKB: Failed to compile keymap
>> Keyboard initialization failed. This could be a missing or incorrect setup
>> of xkeyboard-config.
>
> This is often the case if /opt/mpx/share/X11/xkb/compiled/ doesn't exist or
> isn't writable. Check for that too.
>
>> For above error  I configured xkeyboard-config package with prefix /opt/mpx/
>> and again tried to run X server with above sequence of  commands.But still
>> error was there. So checked for "xkbcomp" in /opt/mpx then found it here:
>>
>> /opt/mpx/share/X11/xkb
>
> this is weird, xkbcomp should not be in this directory. Please reconfigure
> with the right prefix and reinstall instead of the symlink.
> that aside - is there any reason you disable hotplugging?

This comes from some dubious behavior in xkeyboard-config. It creates
a symlink to xkbcomp in the xkb base directory unless you pass a
--disable-xkbcomp-symlink or something like that.

Amey, just build xkbcomp with --prefix=/opt/mpx and make sure it uses
a base path of /opt/mpx/share/X11/xkb so it will pick up your config
files. There should be a configure option if it doesn't just follow
--prefix by default.

--
Dan