re: VT switching issue on netbsd-5.1_RC3

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

> The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
>  > Error:            Error interpreting include file "pc"
>  >                   Exiting
>  >                   Abandoning symbols file "default"

ah!  this sounds like one of the potential issues with upgrading.  try
following the instructions from this part of the 5.1 release notes:

        If you are updating to NetBSD 5.1_RC3 without the aid of
        sysinst or postinstall and your port uses X.Org, be sure to
        remove /usr/X11R7/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/pc before extracting
        the xbase set. In the version of X.Org shipped with 5.0,
        this was a directory, but in more recent X.Org versions it
        is a file.

eg:

# cd /
# rm -rf /usr/X11R7/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/pc
# pax -rzpe -f /path/to/xbase.tgz ./usr/X11R7/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/pc

would be sufficient to fix this.


another thing you could try is to enable the i915drm driver in your
kernel and see if that works.


.mrg.