Hi, On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 02:52:42PM +1030, Peter Hutterer wrote: > On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 02:55:00AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
> > I don't know whether this is really related (I'm pretty sure I > > experienced that with kbd driver as well), but the fact that zap > > depends on xkb is actually quite problematic: When the xkb map is > > somehow borked, the server still starts, but it's not possible to > > zap (nor to switch console)... This gets really ugly when no other > > means to exit the server is available :-) > > You're saying a broken installation causes certain features to not > work? :) Well, the point is that the zap is often the only way out when something goes wrong, so it's particularily unfortunate when it breaks... > If the xkb map is broken that usually means the server has a bug (-> > bugs.fdo.org) or xkeyboard-config is wrongly installed -> install it > correctly (from git). > > with either a released server and even git master there's no reason > why the xkbmap should be busted. Actually, a wrong/outdated xorg.conf is sufficient to break zapping. Seen that more than once. -antrik- _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg