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Alle 22:20, lunedì 3 luglio 2006, Benno Schulenberg ha scritto:
> Luigi Pinna wrote:
> > Probably I found the problem:
> > # setxkbmap -layout de -option "compose:menu,lv3:ralt_switch"
> > Couldn't interpret _XKB_RULES_NAMES property
>
> Googling for that line shows these threads:
>
> http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/freenx-knx/2006-June/003552.html
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-05/msg00041.html
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2004-September/0088
>55.html
>
> The first one says that it is some error in Xorg itself, fixed in
> more recent versions.
>
> The second one suggests that you may have a mistaken symlink
> somewhere as a result of downgrading.
>
> The last one found this as a workaround:
> setxkbmap -keycodes "xfree86" -types "default" -symbols
> "en_US(pc105)+de" -geometry "pc(pc102)"

I tried it:
setxkbmap -keycodes "xfree86" -types "default" -symbols "en_US(pc105)+de" 
-geometry "pc(pc102)"
Couldn't interpret _XKB_RULES_NAMES property
Use defaults: rules - 'xorg' model - 'pc101' layout - 'us'
Error loading new keyboard description



> > What does it means? I generated the default config file with the
> > new xorgconfig... It must write already the right rules...
>
> Please post the relevant section of your xorg.conf again, plus the
> output of 'setxkbmap -print'.
>
> Benno

- From my xorg.conf:

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard1"
    Driver      "kbd"
    Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
    Option "XkbRules"   "xorg"
    Option "XkbModel"   "pc105"
    Option "XkbLayout"  "de"
    Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
EndSection

setxkbmap -v 9 de
Setting verbose level to 9
locale is C
Couldn't interpret _XKB_RULES_NAMES property
Use defaults: rules - 'xorg' model - 'pc101' layout - 'us'
Warning! Multiple definitions of keyboard layout
         Using command line, ignoring X server
Applied rules from xorg:
model:      pc101
layout:     de
Trying to build keymap using the following components:
keycodes:   xfree86+aliases(qwertz)
types:      complete
compat:     complete
symbols:    pc(pc101)+de
geometry:   pc(pc101)
Error loading new keyboard description

and:

setxkbmap -print
Couldn't interpret _XKB_RULES_NAMES property
Use defaults: rules - 'xorg' model - 'pc101' layout - 'us'
xkb_keymap {
        xkb_keycodes  { include "xfree86+aliases(qwerty)"       };
        xkb_types     { include "complete"      };
        xkb_compat    { include "complete"      };
        xkb_symbols   { include "pc(pc101)+us"  };
        xkb_geometry  { include "pc(pc101)"     };
};

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