Keymap problems

[Jens Stroebel]

On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 01:48:05PM -0500, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
> 
> On three boxes I've recently installed Xorg using the jhbuild 
> instructions.  Everything went smoothly, other than a handful of input 
> drivers that refused to build.  Unfortunately, on all three machines I get:
> 
> (WW) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap
> 
> And then the control key is nearly useless.  I have the 
> /opt/xorg/lib/X11/xkb directory with the following contents:
> 
> [ adamk at memory - ~ ]: ls -l /opt/xorg/lib/X11/xkb/

	[...contents snipped...]

To quote a useful answer I got when "struggling" with
xkbdesc/xkeyboard-config to get my german keyboard to do as I please:

#####################################################################
--with-xkb-rules-symlink=xorg: This will help get things working out
of the box with Xorg. Otherwise, you'd have to specify XkbRules "base"
in xorg.conf.

--with-xkb-base: Make sure that you're putting the xkb data the same
place that the xserver expects it to be, which is ${datadir}/X11/xkb.
The default in xkeyboard-config is ${prefix}/lib/X11/xkb.
#####################################################################

The xkb-base in your case should propably be /opt/xorg/share/X11/xkb.

		Hope this helps,
		  Jens
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