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Re: X/cygwin keymap load error
- From: "Philippe Renaud-Goud" <PRG at seereal dot com>
- To: <albattil at tin dot it>
- Cc: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 16:16:29 +0200
- Subject: Re: X/cygwin keymap load error
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Hi Alessandro,
You wrote:
> Can you help me to solve the keybord load error?
>
> in /tmp/XWin.log the message is:
>
> (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00000410" (00000410)
> (--) Using preset keyboard for "Italian" (410), type "4"
> (EE) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap
>
> When I try to use (from FAQ)
>
> $ setxkbmap.exe de -model pc105
>
> Couldn't interpret _XKB_RULES_NAMES property
> Use defaults: rules - 'xorg' model - 'pc101' layout - 'us'
> Aborted (core dumped)
>
> $ xkbcomp -w 3 -xkm -m it /etc/X11/xkb/keymap/xfree86 localhost:0.0
> Error: Can't find file "xfree86" for keycodes include
> Exiting
> Abandoning keycodes file "it
>
>
> Thank you in advance
>
> Alessandro
>
I had the same problem...
By copying the /etc/X11/xkb directory
into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb
It seems to work pretty well now...
Bye,
Philippe.
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