From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 17 8: 6:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 244CC37B423 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 08:06:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from 1cust211.tnt1.tucson.az.da.uu.net ([63.11.141.211] helo=earthlink.net) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16G0HT-0001M6-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 08:06:20 -0800 Message-ID: <3C1E1822.3080700@earthlink.net> Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 09:06:58 -0700 From: Neil User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011215 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Couldn't interpret _XKB_RULES_NAMES property Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In XFree86-4.1.0_6 (installed from the FreeBSD 4.4 release CD.) Here is the (xterm) readout: $ setxkbmap us Couldn't interpret _XKB_RULES_NAMES property Use defaults: rules - 'xfree86' model - 'pc101' layout - 'us' setxkbmap in free(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense. Couldn't find rules file (xfree86) $ I cannot figure out how to change the keyboard layout in XFree86 other XFree commands work fine, like "xset." Here is some relevant background: A week or so ago, I installed FreeBSD 4.4 from the exact same CDs onto this exact same computer and used the exact same XF86Config file. The "setxkbmap" feature worked just fine. Since I couldn't get the sound to work as well as it had on FreeBSD 4.3 release, I dicided to reinstall. The only difference I can think I made on the second install is the following: FIRST INSTALL: I set the console keymap to US-Dvorak during the install, and I installed XFree86-4.1.0_6 in the same session. recall that setxkbmap worked in this install SECOND INSTALL: I set the console keymap to US-Dvorak during the install - as before; but I installed XFree86-4.1.0_6 off the cd after I rebooted. recall that setxkbmap does not work in this install. current probably relevant packages: $ pkg_info|grep X11 XFree86-4.1.0_6 X11R6.4/XFree86 core distribution (complete) blackbox-0.61.1 A small and fast window manager for X11R6 gtk-1.2.10_2 Gimp Toolkit for X11 GUI kdebase-2.2_2 Base modules for the KDE integrated X11 desktop kdegames-2.2 Games for the KDE integrated X11 desktop kdegraphics-2.2 Utilities for the KDE integrated X11 desktop kdemultimedia-2.2 Utilities for the KDE integrated X11 desktop kdeutils-2.2 Utilities for the KDE integrated X11 desktop open-motif-2.1.30_1 Motif X11 Toolkit (industry standard GUI (IEEE 1295)) xv-3.10a_2 An X11 program that displays images of various formats $ All I want is a way to fix this feature without having to reinstall again. Does anybody know how to fix it? I am hoping I don't have to download the source and compile. I have only a 56 k modem. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message