From: Harald Schreiber Message-ID: <m31ysycwxj.fsf@harald-schreiber.de> Newsgroups: de.comp.os.unix.x11 Subject: Re: Fehlerhafte Tastaturbelegung XFree86 4.0.2 Date: 16 Feb 2001 19:19:52 +0100 cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 rm -Rf xkb ln -s /etc/X11/xkb .According to Message-ID: <m3pugicn46.fsf@harald-schreiber.de>, they have fixed this for an updated package at their site, meanwhile.
From: Sönke Müller-Lund Newsgroups: de.comp.os.unix.x11 Subject: Re: Xfree4.0.2 und deutsche Tastatur? Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 21:56:16 +0100 Message-ID: <3A85AAF0.88D8140B@ki.comcity.de>
I also remember the hint to make a softlink from /var/X11R6/lib/xkb to /var/state/xkb.
You could strace(1) your Xserver and see where it fails:
$ strace -e trace=open,access,stat -f -o log /usr/X11R6/bin/X(or another more appropriate Xserver binary in that directory)
Even the XFree86-FAQ suggests, that you disable the XKB extensions by starting the server with the "-kb" option or by adding the keyword "XkbDisable" to your XF86Config file.
However, now you will need an appropriate Xmodmap file instead. But at least you will always be able to succeed with this basic (and thus more complicated) way.
If you use the xmodmap way, you might find some inspiration in
the numerous xmodmap files, that are offered by
Mandrake
(one of the german mirrors, Aachen), search your mirror on the
mirror list.
Usually you'll find the keymaps in
.../<mandrake-version>/i586/Mandrake/mdkinst/usr/share/xmodmap/
.
German Users for example could try xmodmap.de_nodeadkeys.
On the other hand, if you only still need a few corrections for your current keymap, you could just fix it manually, if you feel like.