On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 02:04:20PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 05:44:44PM +0300, Sami J. Laine wrote: > > Package: xserver-xfree86 > > Version: 4.2.1-3 > > Severity: important > > > > X-server doesn't seem to be able to load XKB keymaps anymore, not even > > the default ie. one with US-mappings. > > > > This makes the system difficult to use for anyone who uses a non-US > > keyboard (for example, tilde and curly brackets are not available and > > makes C coding, etc. impossible). > > What was the last version of the xserver-xfree86 package you used that > didn't have this problem? I only started getting a lot of complaints > about XKB with XFree86 4.2.1-6 (because I backported fixes for memory > leaks and crashes -- figures that they'd break other stuff).
I used XFree86 4.3.0, which I downloaded as pre-compiled binaries from ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/, until I noticed that current debian-testing does carry somewhat recent XFree86 4.x.x release too (in one of my systems I use Asus A7N-266VM w/ integrated GeForce2 MX GPU and is not supported in previous releases). So how I did to get into this "state of affairs"? I used to run Debian stable, which I upgraded into testing using dist-upgrade after I changed /etc/apt/sources.list. -- Sami Laine @ UTU, +358504118464
