On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 03:18:06PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > Package: xserver-xorg > Version: 1:7.0.22 > Severity: normal > > Denis Barbier currently works on correcting the keymaps for Macintosh > computers. I am one of the people testing his work. Previous versions > worked as expected (modulo some key misassignements, which is the > entire reason for testing, hence expected), but the current version > 0.8-12exp2 kills my X server (see below for the output printed). To > ease testing, the following procedure is used: > a) The deb is extraced to a temporary directory with dpkg -x > b) I run startx (as ordinary user), ssh to root and switch to the > appropriate temporary directory ($tmp/usr/share/X11/xkb)
You do not need to be root, normal users can change their keyboard settings. > c) For some reason, root does not have a permission to write to the > display (previously worked), hence I issue "xhost +" from my > ordinary account and "export DISPLAY=:0.0" from the root account > d) To actually set the keyboard, I run as root > setxkbmap -print | xkbcomp - :0.0 > > In previous versions the keyboard would be reconfigured and I could > test the new layout. Now, every time I run d) X crashes. Pressing > Ctrl-Z I get a console, pressing Ctrl-Left the machine does not > respond to any keyboard input anymore (I have to ssh in from remote > and reboot). When X crashes, it prints out the following lines: Please send the output of setxkbmap -print Denis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
