From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FxVQ4-0000mU-QQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 03 Jul 2006 20:53:25 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k63Km6pQ023414; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 20:48:06 GMT Received: from smtp15.wxs.nl (smtp15.wxs.nl [195.121.247.6]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k63KKhQI021213 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 20:20:43 GMT Received: from graskamp (ip51cfa1ef.direct-adsl.nl [81.207.161.239]) by smtp15.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 Patch 2 (built Jul 14 2004)) with ESMTP id <0J1U003QCGII4M@smtp15.wxs.nl> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 03 Jul 2006 22:20:42 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 22:20:28 +0200 From: Benno Schulenberg Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] losting deadkeys layout In-reply-to: <200607030044.12812.mailing-gentoo@sailorferris.com> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <200607032220.28550.benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <200607022010.35601.mailing-gentoo@sailorferris.com> <44A84775.8000909@gentoo.org> <200607030044.12812.mailing-gentoo@sailorferris.com> X-Archives-Salt: a8ed7143-07a6-4679-8ca1-9cba171ca8aa X-Archives-Hash: 1f536a6183a8b6f62af0742e605c1795 Luigi Pinna wrote: > Probably I found the problem: > # setxkbmap -layout de -option "compose:menu,lv3:ralt_switch" > Couldn't interpret _XKB_RULES_NAMES property Googling for that line shows these threads: http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/freenx-knx/2006-June/003552.html http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-05/msg00041.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2004-September/008855.html The first one says that it is some error in Xorg itself, fixed in more recent versions. The second one suggests that you may have a mistaken symlink somewhere as a result of downgrading. The last one found this as a workaround: setxkbmap -keycodes "xfree86" -types "default" -symbols "en_US(pc105)+de" -geometry "pc(pc102)" > What does it means? I generated the default config file with the > new xorgconfig... It must write already the right rules... Please post the relevant section of your xorg.conf again, plus the output of 'setxkbmap -print'. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list