Package: x11-xkb-utils Version: 7.4+1 Severity: important Hi, I've recently found out that my Italian keyboard layout is no longer working properly on my laptop. ASCII characters may still be typed with the keys that show them on the Italian keyboard (e.g.: the " character may be obtained with Shift+2), but nothing is typed when I press keys that should produce non-ASCII characters (e.g.: accented vowel keys produce nothing, but their keypress event is detected by xev, hence the key *is* working). Moreover, the Ctrl+Alt+F1 combo no longer works (I cannot switch to the console). Another thing that now fails is my set of keyboard shortcuts, which are configured through Fluxbox and based on the LeftWin key...
My laptop is an old Acer Aspire 1302 XV. The relevant part of /etc/X11/xorg.conf is: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "kbd" Option "CoreKeyboard" Option "XkbRules" "xorg" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "it" EndSection and it hasn't changed recently. I found the following error in /var/log/Xorg.0.log : (EE) Error compiling keymap (server-0) (EE) XKB: Couldn't compile keymap One or two weeks ago there was no problem with the Italian keyboard. I tried to manually set the keyboard layout: $ setxkbmap it Error loading new keyboard description $ setxkbmap us Error loading new keyboard description and so forth (whatever arguments I pass to setxkbmap). These tests also produce more of the above mentioned errors in /var/log/Xorg.0.log ... On the other hand, other Debian testing (desktop) boxes I use work properly and have no such issues. Those other boxes have U.S. keyboards, but I also tried to run "setxkbmap it" on them and obtained an Italian mapping with no problem whatsoever (accented vowels work, even though they are of course not visible on the U.S. keyboard...). I cannot understand what change on my laptop produced the problem: apart from updating packages from testing repositories, I recently installed im-switch (but I haven't yet configured anything for regular users). The desktop boxes (that work properly) already have im-switch installed (and get regular testing updates from the repositories). I searched the web and the Debian BTS about the above mentioned errors and I found a number of bug reports regarding similar (but not identical, since many of them dealt with more customized configurations) issues. However, most such bug reports are old and long closed. I am not sure this bug report really belongs to package x11-xkb-utils: please reassign to the appropriate one, if it belongs elsewhere. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages x11-xkb-utils depends on: ii cpp 4:4.3.2-2 The GNU C preprocessor (cpp) ii libc6 2.7-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libice6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libsm6 2:1.0.3-2 X11 Session Management library ii libx11-6 2:1.1.5-2 X11 client-side library ii libxaw7 2:1.0.4-2 X11 Athena Widget library ii libxkbfile1 1:1.0.5-1 X11 keyboard file manipulation lib ii libxmu6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous utility library ii libxt6 1:1.0.5-3 X11 toolkit intrinsics library ii x11-common 1:7.3+18 X Window System (X.Org) infrastruc x11-xkb-utils recommends no packages. x11-xkb-utils suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]