From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 25 21:54:32 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DB6716A468 for ; Fri, 25 May 2007 21:54:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx24.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3EC0513C484 for ; Fri, 25 May 2007 21:54:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 28356 invoked by uid 399); 25 May 2007 21:54:31 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.5?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 25 May 2007 21:54:31 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 Message-ID: <46575B14.8030902@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 14:54:28 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dejan Lesjak References: <20070523071200.GA53716@freebsd.csie.nctu.edu.tw> <20070524080159.GA78077@freebsd.csie.nctu.edu.tw> <4657535C.1080406@FreeBSD.org> <200705252333.53650.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> In-Reply-To: <200705252333.53650.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, Edward Shabotinsky , Ying-Chieh Liao , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xorg 7.2 with FreeBSD 6.2 on T41 keyboard failure X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 21:54:32 -0000 Dejan Lesjak wrote: > On Friday 25 May 2007 23:21:32 Doug Barton wrote: >> Ying-Chieh Liao wrote: >>> ok, I got this fixed by defining a env var >>> XKEYSYMDB=/usr/local/share/X11/XKeysymDB >>> everything goes well now >> D'oh, should have read further in the thread, sorry. This solution >> works for me if I set the environment variable in the shell before >> typing 'startx', but doesn't work if I just put it in my xinitrc file. >> Weird. >> >> Anyone on the x11 team want to comment on this one? > > Well... > With modular ports we install some files in /usr/local/share/X11 and some > in /usr/local/lib/X11. In this particular case, the server expects them to be > in /usr/local/lib/X11. I'm not decided on whether we should move all in lib > or modify default search path in server. Having them in lib mirrors previous > location in /usr/X11R6 (where also mergebase script will move any custom > app-defaults for example), but having such files in share feels a bit more > intuitive... Interestingly we seem to face the opposite problem with the rgb file. My vote would be to put everything where the existing code expects it to be by default. But I'm not doing the work, so feel free to ignore me. :) Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection