AmigaPhil@ping.be wrote:
ken (gebser@speakeasy.net) wrote something I wish to comment : (news:<42AFFA2D.5070200@speakeasy.net> posted on 15-juin-05 10:51:41)
Sounded good to me. That line was
Option "XkbLayout" "be"
and I change it to:
Option "XkbLayout" "be-latin1"
then reboot the computer... No change :-(
I did perform the same change to /etc/X11/xorg.conf-Linux1 (where "Linux1" is the name of my machine) and reboot. No change either.
Strange crap! Do you have /etc/X11/xorg.conf or just the xorg.conf-Linux1 file? If there's no xorg.conf, copy the xorg.conf-Linux1 to xorg.conf. Then just do Ctrl-Alt-Backspace; you don't need to reboot.
xorg.conf was there, already same content as in as xorg.conf-Linux1
I forgot to mention in my previous post that the keyboard can be configured in the file /etc/sysconfig/keyboard (also). Near the top of that file you'll find a variable called KEYTABLE; set that to "be-latin1.map.gz".
It is already.
You might want to check through /etc/sysconfig/language also, to make sure the settings are correct there too.
Not sure.
The first entry is a long string which looks like a list of language file. Something like: string(POSIX,ca_ES.ISO-8859-1, ... ,zh_CN.UTF-8) Don't know if it has any importance, but there is nothing related to Belgium. For the French language, there is fr_FR@euro,fr_FR.ISO-8859-1, fr_FR.UTF-8, but there is no fr_BE<something>.
Next on the file, the RC_LANG is set to "fr_FR.UTF-8"
Other entries which are set to something are: ROOT_USES_LANG="ctype" AUTO_DETECT_UTF8="no" INSTALLED_LANGUAGES="en_GB,en_US,fr_FR"
These are to make sure that you have the needed character sets, currency symbols, time and date formats, and other stuff like that. I'm not at all familiar with Flemish or whatever language you plan to use, so you're on you own with all that. It won't bear directly on the functioning of the keyboard.
If it still doesn't work after these changes, check the date/time on your /var/log/Xorg.0.log. If the date/time corresponds to the last time you loaded X or after, cut-n-paste that into your next reply so we can have a look at it.
Good idea !
Hmm, the file is 41Kb, so i'll paste here only the lines that seems relevant to me (and related to the keyboard):
(**) Option "CoreKeyboard" (**) Keyboard[0]: Core Keyboard (**) Option "Protocol" "Standard" (**) Keyboard[0]: Protocol: Standard (**) Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30" (**) Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" (**) Keyboard[0]: XkbRules: "xfree86" (**) Option "XkbModel" "pc105" (**) Keyboard[0]: XkbModel: "pc105" (**) Option "XkbLayout" "be" (**) Keyboard[0]: XkbLayout: "be" (**) Option "CustomKeycodes" "off" (**) Keyboard[0]: CustomKeycodes disabled (**) Option "Protocol" "explorerps/2" (**) Mouse[1]: Device: "/dev/input/mice" (**) Mouse[1]: Protocol: "explorerps/2" (**) Option "CorePointer" (**) Mouse[1]: Core Pointer (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" (==) Mouse[1]: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50 (==) Mouse[1]: Buttons: 3 (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse[1]" (type: MOUSE) (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Keyboard[0]" (type: KEYBOARD) (EE) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap
Well, obviously it's not finding the keymap you entered into the xorg.conf file. Go back to my previous email on that topic and make sure the xorg.conf parameter corresponds to an actual file.
I saw there is also a file SaX.log there. I find it very informative as to the trouble I have encountered while trying to configure the keyboard with SaX2. Here are some lines I find interesting (between "<" and ">" are comments I've added):
13-Jun 23:23:57 <X> Logging File contents: /tmp/sax2-8841/xorg.conf [ <content of xorg.conf here> ] sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `'' sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file 13-Jun 23:24:10 <X> Logging File contents: /var/log/xlog [ < ... > [....]
(**) Option "XkbLayout" "be" (**) Keyboard[0]: XkbLayout: "be"
I thought XkbLayout was supposed to be "be-latin1". So the above explains the error.
[...]
The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: > Error: Can't find file "pc" for geometry include > Exiting > Abandoning geometry file "default" Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server (EE) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap < ... > The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: > Error: Can't find file "unknown" for geometry include > Exiting > Abandoning geometry file "default" Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server < those last 5 lines are reproduced 4 more time > ]
Comment out whatever lines the above errors are referring to.
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