On Sun, 2010-09-12 at 17:53 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 16:49:44 +0200, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > > > Package: xkb-data > > Version: 1.8-1 > > Severity: important > > > > After updating my desktop machine to squeeze my keyboard no longer works > > (ok 3 keys on my keyboard among them "u" work). This happens even if I > > start with an empty/no xorg.conf. > > > > Starting X manually I noticed this on stderr: > > > > The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: > > > Error: Can't find file "en_us" for symbols include > > > Exiting > > > Abandoning symbols file "default" > > Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server > > (EE) Unable to open evdev device "/dev/input/event4". > > (EE) PreInit returned NULL for "Microsoft Natural® Ergonomic Keyboard 4000" > > > > > > So I did a strace and creating this symlink fixed it for me > > > > # cd /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols > > # ln -s us en_us > > > > Is this a problem/misconfiguration on my side and intended or should > > en_us be shipped indeed? > > > Sounds like a misconfiguration to me. What was in your xorg.conf before > the upgrade?
IIRC
Option "XkbLayout" "en_US'
> What's in /etc/default/keyboard now?
( I did not even know this file exists )
XKBMODEL="microsoft"
XKBLAYOUT="en_us"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS="ctrl:nocaps"
let me guess - there should be us in there only?
> Cheers,
> Julien
Soeren
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