On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Dan Nicholson wrote:

> On 3/8/07, Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>         Section "InputDevice"
>>             Identifier  "Keyboard1"
>>             Driver      "kbd"
>>             Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
>>             Option "XkbRules"   "xorg"
>>             Option "XkbModel"   "pc104"
>>             Option "XkbLayout"  "us_intl"
>>         EndSection
>
> One thing to think about here is that if you're following BLFS, we
> haven't moved over to the new xkeyboard-config package. We're using
> the (now deprecated) xkbdata. I don't know what gentoo's using. Your
> log file didn't show any complaints about the above options, but it
> would probably help to strip down the options to make sure they aren't
> causing any problems. Particularly, us_intl might cause issues.
>
Well, I didn't use anything special to get a working xorg.conf file
(hence the wrong font paths you may have noticed). I didn't even realize
there's a special package for that, in BLFS or gentoo. Since configuring X
is a pain (for me), I just try to keep a file that works with my
hardware. As for us_intl, I don't remember why I have it instead of us,
but probably it has to do with dead keys, which I need. Anyway, I
checked that us_intl exists in /opt/xorg/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us_intl
(/opt/xorg being $XORG_PREFIX). In gentoo, symbols are in
/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols, so I made /usr/share/X11 a symlink to
/opt/xorg/share/X11, just in case.
> I would start by doing Xorg -configure and substituting the xkb
> options it give you into your xorg.conf. If things are still broken,
> then we know the XKB isn't the culprit. Actually, it would probably
> help to start with Xorg -configure defaults and re-enable your
> options.
>
I suppose I must try that next monday. I will also try "us" XkbLayout.
Until then I'm connected via ssh to the gentoo part and then chroot to
the LFS part...
BTW, I have a small(?) problem that may or may not be related. On
booting, the console cursor (i.e. the blinking underscore) appears
misplaced. I can login but the cursor is a few lines above. If I change
to another VT and then come back, the cursor becomes normal. Is this a
symptom of some known problem?
> --
> Dan
>
Thanks.

Jorge
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