Bugzilla Bug 193993

After upgrading 0.9 to 1.1 and getting the new keyboard config files through
etc-update , I rebooted and now all the shortcuts to obtain special chars
not present on my keyboard are gone (i.e.: I can't even insert the c
parenthesis "{" or the tilde without Kcharselect) while I'm in X.

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
Alt-gr + (7-0') produces nothing

Expected Results:  
Alt-gr + (7-0' and igrave) produces special chars not present here

It is setting the keymap that fails, both on X startup:

(WW) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap

and manually with setxkbmap.

(I don't have an actual error message from setxkbmap handy, I downgraded to
0.9).

Hi,

I can confirm this error. I got rid of it after I recompiled libX11,
xorg-server and xf86-input-keyboard.
I don't know if recompilation of all three packages is really necessary but I
was lazy and so didn't test package by package ;)

Cheers
Poly-C

Can you prepare if it works after the command:
setxkbmap -keycodes xfree86 -geometry pc -model pc105 -layout de
(replace the layout if you want).

Hm, now it is enough for me to do "setxkbmap -layout de".
Perhaps you are able to test if the AltGr key is working with layout de.

(In reply to comment #2)
> Hi,
> 
> I can confirm this error. I got rid of it after I recompiled libX11,

Just a "me too".

> xorg-server and xf86-input-keyboard.

A shorter version to fix this error might be emerge -C xkeyboard-config &&
emerge xkbdata
Actually I do not know where the precise difference between these is, but it
fixed the issue for me.

Here AltGr, ctrl + alt (to switch VTs), win keys and accented vowels in the
right part of the italian keyboard stopped working after upgrading to 1.1.

`setxkbmap -layout <enter whatever you want here>` fails with an error message
like
"Could not load description for...."
I don't remember the exact message because I downgraded to 0.9.

I'll have to re-emerge something, setxkbmap doesn't seems to work here:

-setxkbmap -keycodes xfree86 -geometry pc -model pc105 -layout it
Error loading new keyboard description
-setxkbmap -layout it
Error loading new keyboard description

P.S.: xkbdata is deprecated, see:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-announce/2006-December/000203.html

I think the cause of "Error loading new keyboard description" is the warning
"(WW) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap".
I did not get this warning.
Also I know now (when you do not get this warning), what you have change in the
e.g. us layout to get a working alt-gr with setxkbmap.

(In reply to comment #2)
> Hi,
> I can confirm this error. I got rid of it after I recompiled libX11,
> xorg-server and xf86-input-keyboard.
> I don't know if recompilation of all three packages is really necessary but I
> was lazy and so didn't test package by package ;)

I recompiled xf86-input-keyboard, libX11, xorg-server in that order and only
after xorg-server did it work.
So emerge --oneshot xorg-server is necessary and probably sufficient.
Someone else may check that, perhaps?

(In reply to comment #10)
> So emerge --oneshot xorg-server is necessary and probably sufficient.
> Someone else may check that, perhaps?

That did it for me.

I can confirm that re-emerge of xorg-xserver fixed it for me too. I just recall
I had similar problem with xorg mouse driver (mouse has died) and re-emerge of
xorg-xserver fixed that too. So it seems upgrades of some components need
xorg-xserver to be re-emerged.

Re-emerging xorg-server fixed all of my issues with the keyboard.

@x11: what about adding a warning to xkeyboard-config's pkg_postmerge() telling
users to rebuild xorg-server?

Anyway this bug is INVALID...

Confirming rebuilding xorg-server fixes the issue.

This is definitely worth some kind of announcement at least in the ebuild, but
GWN might be a good place too. Losing one's keyboard is not exactly fun to see
:)

Cheers

This looks like a dupe.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 194026 ***

Indeed, this is a dupe of #194026 and a quicker fix than recompiling
xorg-server is:

ln -s /var/lib/xkb /usr/share/X11/xkb/compiled