keboard AT and Pipe together with alt gr not working

Bug #19037 reported by Peter Frühberger
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
xorg (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Daniel Stone

Bug Description

xserver-xorg-input-kbd 6.8.2-42
Distribution: breezy

Hi since that upgrade, I cannot get the "at" nor the "pipe" in combination with
alt gr to work
my xorg.conf of this section:
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver "kbd"
        Option "CoreKeyboard"
        Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
        Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
        Option "XkbLayout" "de"
        Option "XkbOptions" "nodeadkeys"

error while setting another layout:
setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout de
Couldn't interpret _XKB_RULES_NAMES property
Use defaults: rules - 'xorg' model - 'pc101' layout - 'us'
Couldn't find rules file (xorg)

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Peter Frühberger (peter-fruehberger) wrote :

I copied the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb folder from an hoary installation to
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb on my breezy system
keycodes and rules etc are now working... seems to me, that an xorg package of
breezy is missing them?

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Peter Frühberger (peter-fruehberger) wrote :

problem still exists in
xserver-xorg-input-kbd 6.8.2-43

xlibs_6.8.2-43_all.deb could only be installed, while removing content of
/etc/X11/kbd

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Daniel Stone (daniels) wrote :

fixed in -44, per mail to ubuntu-*

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Peter Frühberger (peter-fruehberger) wrote :
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Still not working!
here is a screenshot:
http://www.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/~unatk/misc/xkeyboard.png

commands run, what the pictures suggestests (from another computer!)
fritsch@todesstern:~$ cat xklala
xprop -root | grep XKB
fritsch@todesstern:~$ xprop -root | grep XKB
_XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "base", "pc101", "us", "", ""
fritsch@todesstern:~$ setxkbmap de
Couldn't interpret _XKB_RULES_NAMES property
Use defaults: rules - 'xorg' model - 'pc101' layout - 'us'
Couldn't find rules file (xorg)

extract from xorg.conf:
        Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver "kbd"
        Option "CoreKeyboard"
        Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
        Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option "XkbLayout" "de"
        Option "XkbOptions" "nodeadkeys"

packages installed:
ii libglu1-xorg 6.8.2-43
Mesa OpenGL utility library [X.Org]
ii libglu1-xorg-dev 6.8.2-43
Mesa OpenGL utility library development file
ii xorg-common 6.8.2-44 X
Window System (X.Org) infrastructure
ii xorg-driver-synaptics 0.13.6-0ubuntu5
      Synaptics TouchPad driver for X.Org server
ii xserver-xorg 6.8.2-44
the X.Org X server (dummy package)
ii xserver-xorg-core 6.8.2-44
the X.Org X server
ii xserver-xorg-driver-apm 6.8.2-44
X.Org X server -- APM driver
ii xserver-xorg-driver-ark 6.8.2-44
X.Org X server -- Ark driver
ii xserver-xorg-driver-ati 6.8.2-44
X.Org X server -- ATI driver
ii xserver-xorg-driver-chips 6.8.2-44
X.Org X server -- Chips driver
ii xserver-xorg-driver-cirrus 6.8.2-44
X.Org X server -- Cirrus driver
ii xserver-xorg-driver-cyrix 6.8.2-44
X.Org X server -- Cyrix driver
ii xserver-xorg-driver-dummy 6.8.2-44
X.Org X server -- dummy driver
ii xserver-xorg-driver-fbdev 6.8.2-44
X.Org X server -- fbdev driver
ii xserver-xorg-driver-glide 6.8.2-44
X.Org X server -- Glide driver
ii xserver-xorg-driver-glint 6.8.2-44
X.Org X server -- Glint driver
ii xserver-xorg-driver-i128 6.8.2-44
X.Org X server -- i128 driver
ii xserver-xorg-driver-i740 6.8.2-44
X.Org X server -- i740 driver
ii xserver-xorg-driver-i810 6.8.2-44
X.Org X server -- Intel driver
ii xserver-xorg-driver-imstt 6.8.2-44
X.Org X server -- IMSTT driver
ii xserver-xorg-driver-mga 6.8.2-44
X.Org X server -- mga driver
ii ...

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Peter Frühberger (peter-fruehberger) wrote :

also not fixed for me with -45er versions...

what I found out:
All symlinks in /etc/X11/xkb/rules$ link to files, which do not exist!
xfree86 -> base
xorg -> base
xorg.lst -> base.lst

etc.

thx for your help

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Daniel Stone (daniels) wrote :

As I said, read my mail on ubuntu-{devel,users}, which explains how to unbreak it.

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Peter Frühberger (peter-fruehberger) wrote :

It is finally fixed for me!
just forgot the dpkg -i --force-confmiss
/var/cache/apt/archives/xkeyboard-config_0.5-4_all.deb step

thx for your help

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