correct location of evdev?

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Sat Feb 28 17:11:06 PST 2009


Hi,

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 10:48:08AM +0100, Marc Weber wrote:
> This last one isn't. It looks like some other output has been passed to args?
> I don't understand yet what is happening here (between args and "exit
> code" there should only be the expansion of "$@"..  But there is also an
> error message?)
> 
>     pwd: / args: /nix/store/vxkwhi4yvlrkn0b2hphqaa5avmpgmz5r-xkbcomp-git/bin/xkbcomp.orig -w 1 -R/nix/store/i1kji9v61b00iwqpn5w9mhvvszx07v4x-xkeyboard-config-git/etc/X11/xkb -xkm - -em1 The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: -emp >  -eml Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server /nix/store/xgxjshwf8msly1zbzhfgfrq1f1ibwl1d-xorg-server-git/share/X11/xkb/compiled/server-0.xkm exit code 1 stdout:  , stderr The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
>   > Error:            Can't find file "evdev" for keycodes include
>   >                   Exiting
>   >                   Abandoning keycodes file "default"
>   Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server

No, that's fine too.  The arguments are to tell it how to format its
output (awesome).  The error is telling you what you need to know: that
it can't find keycodes/evdev in your XKB path.  Either you haven't got
xkeyboard-config installed to that path, or it's too old.

Cheers,
Daniel
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