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Bodhisattva
Joined: 25 Jul 2002
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Location: Berlin
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 Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2002 3:20 pm Post subject: No German xkb map? |
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| The PowerPC-FAQ wrote: | | Check that the permissions on /var/tmp are set to drwxrwxrwx. If not, change them by typing chmod a+rwx /var/tmp. This will allow XFree to load keymaps properly again. |
Which is what I did, of course, but the error message stays the same as before: | Code: | | Could not load xkb keymap, falling back to pre-xkb default keymap |
I can't find proper keymaps for my German keyboard, there's none /etc/X11/xkb/keymap/Macintosh. I'm successfully using a standard German keyboard layout on the console, but in X it always falls back to a US default I haven't defined anywhere. Ideas anyone? |
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Bodhisattva
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| Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2002 11:43 am Post subject: |
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Whoever has followed my tribulations with the beige G3 desktop will be pleased ot hear that the sound has returned to the machine.  I'll spare you all the embarrassing details... Let me just say that tightening the screws on the I/O card's rig as fast as you can may not always be the best of ideas, especially if it lifts the far end of the card by a barely visible tenth of a millimetre out of its socket... 
Nobody knows a solution to the keymap problem? I find that hard to believe, are you all using a standard US keyboard?  |
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zendron
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 28 Jul 2002
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| Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2002 6:25 pm Post subject: |
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my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 says for the keybord:
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Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "XkbModel" "macintosh"
Option "XkbLayout" "de"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
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on my G3 B/W
and /var/tmp is drwxrwxrwt.
My keyboard speaks german. |
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Bodhisattva
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| Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2002 12:39 am Post subject: |
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And this is exactly what my config file and the permissions for /var/tmp looked [1] like, but my keyboard is apparently disgusted and refuses to speak its native language.
There's something else that's not right, I've modified /etc/sysctl.config to allow for right and middle button emulation, but this, too, is completely ignored in X. There must be something really basic I've done wrong (or not done at all), something that will make me go "duuuh" once I know what it is... 
[1] past tense because I changed the latter to drwxrwxrwx as suggested by the FAQ. Same error in both cases, needless to say... |
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zaw
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Joined: 19 Oct 2002
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| Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2002 9:16 am Post subject: |
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Try this in your XF86Config-4 file
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "XkbModel" "macintosh"
Option "XkbLayout" "de"
#Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
(comment XkbRules line) |
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