After cleanely removing xkeyboard-config 0.9 (rm -Rf /usr/share/X11/xkb), I installed xkeyboard-config 1.1, then xdm broke down. I have a brief dark screen each time I type a key. The key is ignored. My input driver is evdev. I recompiled xf86-input-evdev and xdm with no success afterwards. Back to xkeyboard-config 0.9, everything worked again fine. Portage 2.1.3.9 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.22.7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.22.7 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.00GHz Timestamp of tree: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:50:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r4, 2.5.1-r2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.10-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.22-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.gentoo.org/ ftp://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/ " LANG="fr_FR.UTF-8" LINGUAS="fr" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acpi alsa apache2 audiofile bash-completion bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cddb cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt cscope cups curl dbus dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode evo exif fam fftw firefox flac gdbm gnutls gstreamer gtk hal iconv idn isdnlog javascript jpeg jpeg2k libsamplerate mad matroska midi mikmod mmap mmx mp3 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png pppd python qt3support quicktime readline reflection session sndfile spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg symlink theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vorbis wifi wxwindows x86 xcomposite xml xorg xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="fr" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="i810 none" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Could you try the keyboard driver for your keyboard instead of evdev, with 1.1?
I have the same problem when I select "enable keyboard layouts" in the "keyboard layout" module of the KDE control center. Following the guidelines from http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=114876 I created the directory /usr/X11R6/share/X11/xkb/compiled as root which resolved my issues with xkeyboard-config. Although the directory remains empty (upto now), it seems to be mandatory.
With the keyboard driver, it does not make xdm crash, but the layout of keys is vastly disfunctionning: shift keys do not work, vt switching keys neither... xorg.conf section relation to my layout: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "evdev" Option "name" "*AT*keyboard*" Option "XkbRules" "xorg" Option "XkbModel" "evdev" Option "XkbLayout" "fr" Option "XkbVariant" "oss_nodeadkeys" EndSection
I do not know if this caused problems, but maybe this helps. I tried to run setxkbmap -model evdev -layout fr -variant oss_nodeadkeys -print | xkbcomp - /dev/null and you can see problems with configuration: missing keysyms (XF86KbdLightOnOff, XF86KbdBrightnessDown, XF86KbdBrightnessUp). libX11-1.1.3 has XKeysymDB (keysym database), but it doesn't contain those names. Is there some update of libX11 available?
I realized that I'm also missing /usr/share/X11/xkb/compiled, so I created a link that points to /var/lib/xkb (as root user): ln -s /var/lib/xkb /usr/share/X11/xkb/compiled Now I'm able to compile your keymap successfully with command (as normal user from X) setxkbmap -model evdev -layout fr -variant oss_nodeadkeys Also VT switching works fine. Hope this helped.
Does xorg-server-1.4-r2 work?
(In reply to comment #6) > Does xorg-server-1.4-r2 work? No idea, I'm using xorg-server-1.3.0.0 at the moment.
(In reply to comment #6) > Does xorg-server-1.4-r2 work? > Works for me.
(In reply to comment #6) > Does xorg-server-1.4-r2 work? > Works for me too (no need to use workaround from comment #5).
(In reply to comment #7) > (In reply to comment #6) > > Does xorg-server-1.4-r2 work? > > No idea, I'm using xorg-server-1.3.0.0 at the moment. I would like to add that I have exactly the same problem here : using xorg 1.3.0.0 and xkeyboard-config-1.1 breaks xdm (and X in general too), unless you manually create the symlink suggested in comment #5
xkeyboard-config 1.1 is ~ like the 1.4 xorg server. You should use both ~ x11 packages to make them work properly. BTW, is the latest revision of 1.3 xorg server fixed the issue (which is stable) with xkeyboard-config 1.1 (which is ~)? To have a mixup of stable and ~ packages is not recommended for such intermangled packages(x11 server related packages).
Should be fixed in 1.3-r2 and 1.4-r2.
