> > am I missing a package in the preamble? > > Does the sample presentation installed with Powerdot (powerdot-example.lyx) > work properly? If it doesn't, you probably don't have the required > versions of some packages (look carefully at the documentation). The > versions of several prerequisites distributed with even the latest versions > of many Linux distributions are too old.
just noticed the xkeyval download in http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xkeyval/ will try that, Wolfgang
