Keyboard broken

[Dan Nicholson]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Ian Romanick <idr at freedesktop.org> wrote:
> Sometime since last Tuesday, the xserver is failing with the info below.
> I don't see a file evdev *anywhere* in the tree or in the
> distro's /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules.  I'm also specifying 'Option
> "XkbRules" "xorg"' in my xorg.conf.  What is this file?  Where does it
> come from?  And why is its nonexistence suddenly breaking the xserver?
>
> (EE) XKB: Couldn't open rules
> file /opt/xorg-master-x86_64/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev
> XKB: Failed to compile keymap

The evdev rules are only in recent xkeyboard-config releases. You'd
have to build a new xkeyboard-config, or you can just do a dirty hack
(this worked for me on F9, but YMMV):

ln -s base /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev

--
Dan