From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 7 22: 2:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dnh.pce.net (dnh.pce.net [207.1.59.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3CA714C38 for ; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 22:02:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dave@dnh.pce.net) Received: from localhost (dave@localhost) by dnh.pce.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id BAA29116 for ; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 01:03:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dave@dnh.pce.net) Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 01:03:12 -0500 (EST) From: Dave Hummel Reply-To: dhh@pce.net To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: 2.2.8-stable to 3.1-stable: keyboard woes Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. The more I try to fix this the more convinced I am that my woes are due to a change in the distribution. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Dave ---------- Previous message ---------- 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message