Having created a Python addon floppy to go with my tomsrtbt system I
thought I would see If I could run X and thus be able to experiment with
Tkinter. I have managed to get it working except that the backspace,
delete and arrow keys are not working. e.g. instead of deleting,
backspace prints ^[[3~.
I went back to virtual terminal #1 by doing ctrl+alt+F1 and saw as the
last two lines from the X server
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp: can't resolve symbol 'XkbLibraryVersion'
Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap
The whole /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 "tree" has been copied from a working
Debian 1.3 system. The XF86Config file is /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config
rather than the usual /etc/X11/XF86Config but it is obviously being read
because the mouse (MouseSystems) works OK. The relevant section of the
XF86Config file is fairly standard:
Section "Keyboard"
Protocol "Standard"
XkbRules "xfree86"
XkbModel "pc 102"
XkbLayout "us"
End Section
What is xkbcomp looking for that it can't find? X is working OK on the
Debian 1.3 system.
Once I have X working properly I plan to remove unnecessary files from
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11. At the moment toms + python + X uses up over 26MB
of RAM
BTW Tom has released a new version of tomsrtbt (1.7.250) but it hadn't
reached the aarnet mirror this morning. He has replaced some of the awk
scripts with lua scripts.
regards,
Ken
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