On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 11:01 -0600, Paul Varner wrote: 
> On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 10:50 -0500, Steven Knight wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I can't access the virtual terminals using the standard Ctrl-Alt-F[1-6]
> > keys.  I haven't made any changes to /etc/inittab ( which is where these
> > are defined, right ? ) and virtual terminal support is built into my
> > kernel.
> > 
> > I tried using the "Failsafe Terminal" session in case there was a
> > conflict with my WM but that didn't work either.
> > 
> > Any suggestions?
> 
> Are there any errors in /var/log/Xorg.0.log?
> 
> Absent that information, try the following:
> 
> Verify the keyboard section of your xorg.conf
> 
> mine looks like:
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "Keyboard0"
>         Driver      "kbd"
>         Option      "XkbRules"  "xorg"
>         Option      "XkbModel"  "pc101"
>         Option      "XkbLayout" "us"
> EndSection
> 
> Secondly look at bug# 63795 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63795
> and bug# 47243 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47243
> 
> Regards,
> Paul
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/var/log/Xorg.0.log has
(EE) Couldn't open compiled keymap
file /usr/lib/X11/xkb/compiled/server-0.xkm
(EE) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap

my xorg.conf is setup correctly.  

Your bugs ids we're very helpful and lead me to bug #85504
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85504 which pointed me to
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45385 which described a possible
caused for this problem.

The problem is that 
$ ls -l /usr/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 0 Jan 18 15:07 /usr/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp*

but 

$ ls -l /usr/X11R6/bin/xkbcomp
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 435K Mar  9 11:42 /usr/bin/xkbcomp*

( Those files should be the same size )

cp'ing /usr/bin/xkbcomp to /usr/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp and restarting X
resolved my problem.

Thanks,

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