(fwd) non us keyboards and cygwin xfree86

[Alexander Gottwald]

On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, J S wrote:

> Hi Tom,
> 
> I tried that but got:
> 
> $ xkbcomp -xkm -m gb /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/keymap/xfree86 
> /etc/X11/xkb/keymap/gb
> Error:            Include file wrong type (expected KeyNames, got Keymap)
>                   Include file "xfree86" ignored
>                   Abandoning keycodes file "gb"

Why are still people working with this way? The keyboard is configurable
in the config file /etc/X11/XF86Config. A sample config file can be found
at http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~goal/xfree/XF86Config-4.bz2

bye
	ago