On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 04:43:32PM +1000, Ken Caldwell wrote:
> 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~.
Sounds interesting. How did easy did you find it 'reverse engineering'
the bootdisk?
>
> 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.
Hmm, Debian 1.3 is/rather old. Apparently there has been some see-sawing
with Debian and how it should behave with xterm in different versions.
Do you have access to a later version of the X heirarchy to tree?
>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.
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config is normally a symlink to /etc/X11/XF86Config
anyway
> 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.
Haven't heard of lua - care to explain?
Anand
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