Bronek Baraniecki wrote:
>
> >
> > It is a well known problem, you should find the solution
> > on X11.aplications NG or on deja.com...
> >
> > The problem comes from your upgrade of XFREE (i got the
> > same problem at home with my suse 6.3)
> > mais bon je te donne la soluce.
> >
> > It comes from a bad link of the xkb directory
> >
> > The Xfree upgrade puts it in the directory /var/state.
> > The pervious version of XFREE search it in
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11. You must remove the old link with a
> > simple "rm" and create a new one to the new good
> > directory with the line : ln -s /var/state/xkb
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb
> >
> >
> >
> > sorry it's in french :-)
> >
> > Yann
>
> Thank you,
>
> and sorry, I do not know french :-(
I translate it into english
> > The tips is also given in "guide de survie de G.
> > Delafond"
> >
> > http://www.medsyn.fr/perso/g.delafond/survie.htm
> >
> > 7.23 La touche AltGr ne fonctionne plus après avoir
> > installé XFree86 4.02 ou sans raison
7.23 the AltGr Key doesn't work after upgrading Xfree86.
> > Histoire vécue sur Mandrake 7.2, où setxkbmap refusait de
> > fonctionner. En fait, xkbcomp essayait d'écrire dans
> > /usr/X1R6/lib/xkb/compiled , qui est un lien
> > vers /var/state/xkb...qui n'existe pas.
A lived history on a 7.2 mandrake, where setxkbmap refused to work. In
fact xkbcomp tried to write in /usr/X1R6/lib/xkb/compiled which is a
link to /var/state/xkb which doesn't exist.
> > Solution : créer un répertoire /var/state/xkb.
Solution : create a directory /var/state/xkb.
> Not understand what exactly to "rm" but will try.
it's just the unix rm command which remove "delete" files, directory or
links.
man rm will give you more information
> Regards
> Bruno
Yann
> --
> Bruno Baraniecki
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