xkbdata gone?

[Yong-Jhen Hong]

SirDice wrote:
> Florent Thoumie wrote:
>> SirDice wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Everything is working fine except one thing. On the system I upgraded
>>> from 6.9.0 to 7.2-RC2 xkb works fine. On the system I clean installed
>>> 7.2-RC3 I get a message "Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to
>>> pre-XKB keymap". The /usr/X11R6/share/X11/xkb directory only contains a
>>> compiled directory nothing more. I couldn't find a xkbdata port anywhere
>>> in the git tree.. Did something change? What port do I need to install
>>> to get the keymaps? Tried reinstalling xkbcomp but that didn't help.
>>
>> Yes it has been deprecated so I removed it. I have the same error
>> message when starting gnome (with xkbdata from 7.1 installed), not sure
>> why yet.
>>
> Looking at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4461 (last 2
> remarks)
> and http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-modular/2005-November/000828.html
> 
> I think we need xkeyboard-config but I couldn't find that in the git
> tree either..
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/XKeyboardConfig

Get the 0.9 release source, install with:

./configure --with-xkb_base=/usr/X11R6/share/X11/xkb \
--with-xkb-rules-symlink=xorg
gmake
sudo gmake install
sudo mkdir /var/lib/xkb

The error message disappears.


Regards,
yongjhen