Problems with xkb migrating from Debian unstable

[Ignacio Mas Ivars]

Hi all!

I guess this question must have been asked thousands of times on the
list, but I just can find the proper answer, so any pointers to previous
messages are as welcomed as answers themselves! I am having problems
with xkb after upgrading from a debian unstable system to an up to date
breezy. After fighting with deinstallation and reinstallation of the
Xorg infrastructure, with some links pointing to wrong places and so on
I got the X server up and running but xkb fails to load with the
following message:

 Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap

which messes up my Swedish keyboard. I've seen that it could be a
problem with permissions, so here goes the contents of /etc/X11/xkb/


 /etc/X11/xkb# ls -la 
total 140
drwxr-xr-x  10 root root  4096 Aug 11 14:56 .
drwxr-xr-x  15 root root  4096 Sep 13 11:07 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   983 Jul 20 19:37 README
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  7432 Aug 10 11:09 README.config
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 23337 Jul 20 19:37 README.enhancing
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Aug 11 14:56 compat
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   689 Jul 20 19:37 compat.dir
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    12 Aug 11 14:55 compiled -> /var/lib/xkb
drwxr-xr-x   8 root root  4096 Aug 11 14:56 geometry
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  1965 Aug 10 11:09 geometry.dir
drwxr-xr-x   6 root root  4096 Aug 11 14:56 keycodes
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  2284 Aug 10 11:09 keycodes.dir
drwxr-xr-x   8 root root  4096 Aug 11 14:56 keymap
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  8576 Jul 20 19:37 keymap.dir
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Aug 11 14:56 rules
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Aug 11 14:56 semantics
drwxr-xr-x  21 root root  8192 Aug 11 14:56 symbols
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 29059 Aug 10 11:09 symbols.dir
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Aug 11 14:56 types
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   463 Jul 20 19:37 types.dir
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    22 Aug 11 14:55 xkbcomp
-> /usr/X11R6/bin/xkbcomp

and inside keycodes:

ls -la
total 104
drwxr-xr-x   6 root root  4096 Aug 11 14:56 .
drwxr-xr-x  10 root root  4096 Aug 11 14:56 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   435 Jul 20 19:37 README
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  2192 Jul 20 19:37 aliases
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  3546 Jul 25 13:46 amiga
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  1988 Jul 25 13:46 ataritt
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Aug 11 14:56 digital
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Jul 28 09:26 digital_vndr
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  3773 Jul 25 13:46 fujitsu
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  5024 Jul 25 13:46 hp
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  3200 Jul 25 13:46 ibm
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  3643 Jul 25 13:46 macintosh
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  2293 Jul 25 13:46 powerpcps2
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  2249 Jul 20 19:37 riscpc
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Aug 11 14:56 sgi
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Jul 28 09:26 sgi_vndr
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  3009 Jul 25 13:46 sony
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 13840 Jul 25 13:46 sun
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  8656 Jul 20 19:37 xfree86
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  3351 Jul 25 13:46 xfree98

My entry in xorg.conf is as follows:

Section "InputDevice"

    Identifier  "Keyboard1"
    Driver      "kbd"
    Option "AutoRepeat" "500 300
    Option "XkbRules"   "xorg"
    Option "XkbModel"   "pc105"
    Option "XkbLayout"  "se"

EndSection


Any idea on what can be wrong? I am having a hard time with this one!

Thanks!
/Nacho


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