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Date:      Sat, 6 Mar 1999 20:25:11 -0500 (EST)
From:      Dave Hummel <dave@dnh.pce.net>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   2.2.8-stable to 3.1-stable: keyboard woes (again)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903062019060.1215-100000@dnh.pce.net>

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Hi,

It would appear that xkbcomp is being called from the S3 server, and that
that it doesn't care for the -em1 flag. Is this a FreeBSD specific patch,
or a basic part of XFree86? 

As far as syscons, I still can't get it working with either the atkbd0
keyboard flags or any variation of kbdcontrol -l.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Dave

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Hi all,

After an upgrade from 2.2.8-stable to 3.1-stable I have some  keyboard
troubles. Symptoms include:

emacs in console: very screwy 
emacs in X: meta key moved from alt to esc... other miscelaneous trouble.
rxvt & family: backspace and delete seem to be reversed in editors. xterm
	ok.

I am getting the following error when starting X with startx:
Sytem: '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w 1 -R/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/ -xkm
-m us -em1 "The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: " -emp "> "
-eml "Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server" keymap/xfree86
/var/tmp/xfree86.xkm'

This could(?) account form problems in X, but not in the console. I
noticed that syscons has changed in the kernel. I have an IBM keyboard
from a 1986 XT(PT.NO.1390120 MODEL M) that has always worked flawlessly.

My config says:
controller      atkbdc0 at isa? port IO_KBD tty
device          atkbd0  at isa? tty irq 1
LINT says:
# `flags' for atkbd:
#       0x04   Old-style (XT) keyboard support, useful for older ThinkPads

Do I need this flag? (I never had to use flags before). If so, what is the
proper syntax? Also, any clue on how to resolve that X error? Any other
insights or hints into my problems? My gut tells me that my main problem
lies outside of X, but I may actually have X configuration errors as well.

Thanks,
Dave





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