xorg 7.2 with FreeBSD 6.2 on T41 keyboard failure

[Dejan Lesjak]

On Friday 25 May 2007 23:54:28 Doug Barton wrote:
> Dejan Lesjak wrote:
> > On Friday 25 May 2007 23:21:32 Doug Barton wrote:
> >> Ying-Chieh Liao wrote:
> >>> ok, I got this fixed by defining a env var
> >>> XKEYSYMDB=/usr/local/share/X11/XKeysymDB
> >>> everything goes well now
> >>
> >> D'oh, should have read further in the thread, sorry. This solution
> >> works for me if I set the environment variable in the shell before
> >> typing 'startx', but doesn't work if I just put it in my xinitrc file.
> >> Weird.
> >>
> >> Anyone on the x11 team want to comment on this one?
> >
> > Well...
> > With modular ports we install some files in /usr/local/share/X11 and some
> > in /usr/local/lib/X11. In this particular case, the server expects them
> > to be in /usr/local/lib/X11. I'm not decided on whether we should move
> > all in lib or modify default search path in server. Having them in lib
> > mirrors previous location in /usr/X11R6 (where also mergebase script will
> > move any custom app-defaults for example), but having such files in share
> > feels a bit more intuitive...
>
> Interestingly we seem to face the opposite problem with the rgb file.

What do you mean? rgb.txt installs under /usr/local/lib/X11 where server 
expects to find it. Are you saying it searches for it in /usr/local/share/X11 
or that you got it installed in there?

> My vote would be to put everything where the existing code expects it
> to be by default. But I'm not doing the work, so feel free to ignore
> me. :)

You mean in /usr/local/lib/X11? That will probably be best, yes.

Dejan