Fixing my Linux

Posted on: Thu, 09/29/2005 - 17:40 By: dae

Somehow, I cannot startx. Strictly speacking, I can but the X cannot work properly. I can't get any keyboard input to work. Whenever I press any key, the screen just got refreshed and after I exit (via ctrl-alt-bksp), i got these error

expected keysym, got XF86_Switch_VT_1: line 8 of xfree86
expected keysym, got XF86_Switch_VT_1: line 8 of xfree86
expected keysym, got XF86_Switch_VT_2: line 11 of xfree86
expected keysym, got XF86_Switch_VT_3: line 14 of xfree86
expected keysym, got XF86_Switch_VT_4: line 17 of xfree86
expected keysym, got XF86_Switch_VT_5: line 20 of xfree86
expected keysym, got XF86_Switch_VT_6: line 23 of xfree86
expected keysym, got XF86_Switch_VT_7: line 26 of xfree86
expected keysym, got XF86_Switch_VT_8: line 29 of xfree86
expected keysym, got XF86_Switch_VT_9: line 32 of xfree86
expected keysym, got XF86_Switch_VT_10: line 35 of xfree86
expected keysym, got XF86_Switch_VT_11: line 38 of xfree86
expected keysym, got XF86_Switch_VT_12: line 41 of xfree86
expected keysym, got XF86_Ungrab: line 45 of xfree86
expected keysym, got XF86_ClearGrab: line 48 of xfree86
expected keysym, got XF86_Next_VMode: line 51 of xfree86
expected keysym, got XF86_Prev_VMode: line 54 of xfree86
The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Warning:          Multiple interpretations of "NoSymbol+AnyOfOrNone(all)"
>                   Using last definition for duplicate fields
> Warning:          Multiple interpretations of "NoSymbol+AnyOfOrNone(all)"
>                   Using last definition for duplicate fields
> Warning:          Multiple interpretations of "NoSymbol+AnyOfOrNone(all)"
>                   Using last definition for duplicate fields
> Warning:          Multiple interpretations of "NoSymbol+AnyOfOrNone(all)"
>                   Using last definition for duplicate fields
> Warning:          Multiple interpretations of "NoSymbol+AnyOfOrNone(all)"
>                   Using last definition for duplicate fields
> Warning:          Multiple interpretations of "NoSymbol+AnyOfOrNone(all)"
>                   Using last definition for duplicate fields
> Warning:          Multiple interpretations of "NoSymbol+AnyOfOrNone(all)"
>                   Using last definition for duplicate fields
> Warning:          Multiple interpretations of "NoSymbol+AnyOfOrNone(all)"
>                   Using last definition for duplicate fields
> Warning:          Multiple interpretations of "NoSymbol+AnyOfOrNone(all)"
>                   Using last definition for duplicate fields
> Warning:          Multiple interpretations of "NoSymbol+AnyOfOrNone(all)"
>                   Using last definition for duplicate fields
> Warning:          Multiple interpretations of "NoSymbol+AnyOfOrNone(all)"
>                   Using last definition for duplicate fields
> Warning:          Multiple interpretations of "NoSymbol+AnyOfOrNone(all)"
>                   Using last definition for duplicate fields
> Warning:          Multiple interpretations of "NoSymbol+AnyOfOrNone(all)"
>                   Using last definition for duplicate fields
> Warning:          Multiple interpretations of "NoSymbol+AnyOfOrNone(all)"
>                   Using last definition for duplicate fields
> Warning:          Multiple interpretations of "NoSymbol+AnyOfOrNone(all)"
>                   Using last definition for duplicate fields

After a few googling, i found that the community identified this as a problem about my ill-fated xkbcomp. To fix this, they say I have to replace xkbcomp with a fresh one. I did that but it does not work. With a few try-out. I notice that it might be a problem about the keymap file so I replace the old /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ with the one from my FC4. That solves all the problem.