What happened to Ctrl-Atl-Fx?

2Gnu · 07-10-2007, 09:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by syvy

Deactivating the keyboard-layouts and xkb-options in kde-settings did it here. Now ctrl+alt+F6 works.

So, that begs the question what file(s) edits take place as a result of those actions?

/me heads back to Google

Both of those options were disabled in the KDE settings. Running Kcontrol as root and enabling the keyboard layout throws this error: Error loading new keyboard description

Googling that gives me about a million things to chase, but all relate to the same area.

dunric · 07-10-2007, 01:36 PM

2Gnu:
What a shame my patch did not helped to solve your problem. It did worked for me.

I'd suggest to investigate X server log. Try to run following commands and check/paste here their output:

Code:

grep -i xkb /var/log/Xorg.0.log

and

Code:

grep '(WW)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log

b0uncer · 07-10-2007, 01:39 PM

I have Slackware 12 running fine, can switch terminals with Fn without problems at all. With or without X running (XFCE desktop). Keyboard layout is fi/105key, not using console framebuffer if somebody is interested. Custom-built kernel for that purpose, but mainly the same config as with the huge 2.6 that is the default one..

EDIT: using 'sis' driver in xorg.conf, that's what the laptop's inbuilt video chip is. No hopes of 3d, but it does work, and composite extension works without problems

2Gnu · 07-10-2007, 02:30 PM

dunric,

I am now getting a new error in the xorg log after copying over the contents of the backup xkb dir and fixing some broken symlinks.

Code:

(EE) Error loading keymap /var/lib/xkb/server-0.xkm

The only warnings are for font dirs.

Code:

(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/local/" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/CID/" does not exist.

The output of setxkbmap looks OK, though:

Code:

setxkbmap -print
xkb_keymap {
        xkb_keycodes  { include "xfree86+aliases(qwerty)"       };
        xkb_types     { include "complete"      };
        xkb_compat    { include "complete"      };
        xkb_symbols   { include "pc/pc(pc104)+pc/us"    };
        xkb_geometry  { include "pc(pc104)"     };

dunric · 07-10-2007, 05:17 PM

Error message about keymap loading and output of setxkbmap (symbols in pc subdirectory) signalize some kind of screwed up installation - it looks like you are mixing xorg files of new 7.2 version with some of the previous one. What are you doing with backing up/restoring of xkb directory ? I see no reason to fiddle with it in general.

I would suggest to reinstall at least xorg-server and xkeyboard-config packages coming with Slackware 12.0, better all packages from 'x' series. I hope you know about upgradepkg and its --reinstall option. Restart and check Xorg.0.log and let us know if it did helped.

Regards

2Gnu · 07-10-2007, 05:35 PM

The upgrade process created the backup xkb dir as noted in the upgrade document (which I followed precisely). I tried to repopulate the new one since it was a. empty and b. not working. The file you suggested I patch, for example, did not exist in the normal spot.

I do know about the upgradepkg --reinstall - that's what I did to ensure that the xkb and libxkb packages were correctly installed.

Edit:

Fixed. I reinstalled these all in one shot, so I can't say which thing did it, nor explain why - a bad read from the DVD the first time? a typo on my part? (although I stepped through the history and found no errors)

Reinstalled xkeyboard-config, x11*., xorg.*

Thanks again, all, especially dunric.
I thought that I'd tried reinstalling the xkeyboard-config package, but I can't prove it by my bash history. I'll try that, the X packages and report back.

Thanks.