I sent this message a few weeks ago, but got no reply. After checking the archives now, I see the message didn't appear at all. I'm sorry if you got this already... I'm hoping to get an answer: Hi there. Generally, I use the following configuration (or sometimes its XF86Config equivalent, but that only on some machines I installed and had no problems with) for most (PC104) keyboards I work with: setxkbmap -keycodes 'xfree86' -types 'complete' -compat 'complete+leds(scroll)' -symbols 'us(pc104)+altwin(meta_win)+altwin(meta_alt)+il+group(shift_toggle)' -geometry 'pc(pc104)' Once in a while it fails on a few computers with the unhelpful message of "Error loading new keyboard description". Usually I manage to narrow it down and change the command a bit to work. But recently, on a few machines setxkbmap just fails - no matter how I run it, even with no arguments at all. Having decided to try to understand some more and trace it, I saw that XkbGetKeyboardByName returns 0 on those occasions. I built libX11 with debugging info and discovered that the problem show somewhere inside the call to _XReply in the line: 142 if ((!_XReply(dpy, (xReply *)&rep, 0, xFalse))||(!rep.reported)) (there it fails) but that's already beyond my current comprehension (what to do with _XReply? What is it supposed to do? I don't remember that as a common xlib function) supplying the -v 10 argument to setxkbmap doesn't give much more information. For example: <output> <251:957>alsbergt@serin:~ $ setxkbmap -v 10 Setting verbose level to 10 locale is C Applied rules from xfree86: model: pc105 layout: us Trying to build keymap using the following components: keycodes: xfree86+aliases(qwerty) types: complete compat: complete symbols: pc/pc(pc105)+pc/us geometry: pc(pc105) Error loading new keyboard description </output> Why can't setxkbmap give some more insightful diagnostics (why did it fail, where?) Any idea what the problem is? Why is the behaviour so "random" between different hosts? This is XFree86 4.3.0, both the clients and libs, and the server, on the same host. Thanks, any help appreciated, -- Tom -- Tom Alsberg - hacker (being the best description fitting this space) Web page: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~alsbergt/ DISCLAIMER: The above message does not even necessarily represent what my fingers have typed on the keyboard, save anything further. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
