Keyboard-problems (german), Mesa-problems

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Thu Oct 12 08:47:47 PDT 2006


On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 04:16:55PM +0200, Jens Stroebel wrote:
> 1)
> First and foremost, the keyboard allows no switching from X to
> the console; there are no symbols like @ or | available, as
> they would need a modifier (at least on my german keyboard).
> 
> On a machine which got a xorg-git installation w. a checkout
> from 09/12/06 and was "upgraded" to the current checkout,
> these effects do not occur... (...?...)

You almost certainly don't have a proper XKB dataset available.
Have you got xkeyboard-config (aka xkbdesc) installed?

> 3)
> Now to a minor confusement, the destdir capabilities of the
> build.sh-buildscript are not available through all the modules,
> some not finding includes when using it, as they are in 
> $destdir/$prefix/include instead of being in $prefix/include.
> As there is a lot of movement right now, I sincerely hope that
> this will change in the nearer future.
> Packaging things for a kind of distribution, it is a little
> uncomfortable, though.

Have you set PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$destdir/lib/pkgconfig?  If so, then sounds
like some modules are just missing a couple of dependencies.

Cheers,
Daniel
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