Re: Newly updated modular Xorg won't start

[Pierre Pronchery <khorben%defora.org@localhost>]

		Hey Roy, pkgsrc-users@,

On 05/07/2017 16:08, Roy Marples wrote:
> On 05/07/2017 14:49, Martin Husemann wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 02:45:31PM +0100, Roy Marples wrote:
> > > On 05/07/2017 14:27, Pierre Pronchery wrote:
> > > > These days Xorg should not need any explicit configuration at all anymore.
> > >
> > > Silly question ... how does it derive keyboard layout?
> > > Stock XOrg always gives me a US layout and I have a UK keyboard.
> >
> > You can have a keyboard-only /etc/xorg.conf:
> >
> > --8<--
> > Section "InputDevice"
> >         Identifier  "Keyboard0"
> >         Driver      "kbd"
> >         Option      "Protocol" "wskbd"
> >         Option      "Device" "/dev/wskbd"
> >         Option      "XkbModel" "type6_usb"
> >         Option      "XkbLayout" "de"
> >         Option      "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
> > EndSection
>
> We should fix that.
> I told wscons it's a UK keyboard already.

Then you might want to use x11/xf86-input-ws instead of 
xf86-input-keyboard. I do not think I have tested it myself, so YMMV.

HTH,
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khorben