On 2001.04.19 10:22:14 -0500 Jürgen Zimmermann wrote:
> Have a look in your
> /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
> Is there something like "xkb" along with "disable"?
> If yes, comment out the line, and restart X.
> Modifiers should work again...
Thanks for your reply. I did that, but then the keyboard mapping went wrong
(that is, it appeared as a standard us keyboard, instead of
latin-american). I just did a fresh install from april 19th cooker, and the
problem is still there. There's a suspicious-looking error on
xsession-errors that indicates xmodmap aborts while trying to load a file
('xmodmap: commandline:0: bad keysym in remove modifier list 'Meta_L', no
corresponding keycodes / xmodmap: 1 error encountered, aborting.')
However, I don't know what file is xmodmap trying to read; is it
/etc/X11/xinit/Xmodmap ? If it is, there's a line that (I suppose) assigns
Meta_L to keycode 64. So the message would be incorrect.
I notice there are a lot of programs trying to control the keyboard;
there's xmodmap, (although I don't know how it gets called), there's
loadkeys, who gets called from sysconfig/keyboard (or rather from
/etc/rcd.d/init.d/keytable), there's xkb (I don't know what this one does,
but a have another suspicious thing: 'set' gives me XKB_IN_USE=no, and
XMODIFIERS=@im=none); and of course XF86config.
Could someone tell me how all of these interact (or at least, where should
I start looking?)
Thanks
--
Jorge
