X.org 6.9 - Greek Keyboard Layout - FreeBSD 6.0

[Dimitris Tsamis]

Giorgos Kapetanakis wrote:
> On Tue, January 31, 2006 12:01 am, Laganakos Vassilis wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> I use two layouts on X, English and Greek. I use the following lines in
>> xorg.conf to switch between those two:
>>
>> 	Option "XkbRules"   "xorg"
>> 	Option "XkbModel"   "acpi"
>> 	Option "XkbLayout"  "us,el"
>> 	Option "XkbOptions" grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll,altwin:menu"
>>
>> This worked just fine until I port-upgraded to X.org 6.9 last week.
>> It was compiled and installed correctly. Whe I tried to start X I
>> noticed that I couldn't switch to the Greek layout, and I could not
>> switch to to console with the Alt-Ctrl-F? key combination. When I exited
>> the
>> X mode, I saw the following message:
>>
>> 	The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
>> 	> Error:            Can't find file "pc/el" for symbols include
>> 	>                   Exiting
>> 	>                   Abandoning symbols file "basic"
>> 	>                   Abandoning symbols file "default"
>> 	Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
>>
>>
>> So I was forced to comment out the last two of those lines in xorg.conf
>> and use only English. Greek are can be displayed in any program or Web
>> page,
>> but I cannot type in greek.
>>
>> Thanx,
>>
>> Vassilis
>>
>>     
>
> It's not FreeBSD's issue, it's X.org's. The greek sybols file is no longer
> "el", but "gr".
> Just type:
>
> # cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/pc
> # ln -s gr el
>
> and everything should work fine ;)
>
>   
I had the same problem and "ln -s gr el" solved it. However, I looked at
pc/gr and it seems it includes the pc/el file (which is now linked to
pc/gr). There must be some configuration problem somewhere.