XKB configuration error during the login process

Hannes Mayer fedora at ancientcoins.biz
Sat May 22 13:54:19 UTC 2004


Yoichi Aso wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I just updated my FC1 laptop to FC2 today.
> Thanks to the excellent developers of FC, it works mostly fine.
> But I have a trouble with XKB configuration.
> Whenever I login to the laptop, an error dialogue appears and displays
> the following message.
> 
> ------------------------------------
> Error activating XKB configuration.
> Probably internal X server problem.
> 
> X server version data:
> The X.Org Foundation
> 60700000
> 
> If you report this situation as a bug, please include:
> - The result of xprop -root | grep XKB
> - The result of gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/xkb
> -----------------------------------
> 
> This error dialogue also appears when I try to change my keyboard
> settings from gnome-keyboard-properties.
> 
> Does anyone have any idea of how to fix this problem ?

Changing
Option      "XkbRules" "xfree86"
to
Option      "XkbRules" "xorg"

in /etc/X11/xorg.conf worked for other list-members, but commenting
the line
Option      "XkbRules" "xfree86"
probably works for you too, since I don't have this line at all.

Cheers,
Hannes.






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