Xorg failed to compile keymap

14-5 STABLE
nvidia-driver-595.014.02
Nvidia RTX 5060
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I have gone through many variants of xorg.conf, having no xorg.conf, etc and the latest
xorg.conf from nvidia support AI chat still having Xorg load a frozen pointer and after a
few seconds revert to a black screen [ hard reset necc ], the Xorg logs -- the recent ones --
inform of a failed keyboard initialization [ although that may happen before, rather than
despite, the black screen -- which remains to be seen ] ..
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(EE) XKB: Couldn't open rules file /usr/local/share/X11/xkb/rules/base
which seems to exist as a symlink by the way.
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(EE) XKB: Failed to load keymap. Using default keymap instead.
then it repeats
(EE)XKB: Couldn't open rules files /usr/local/share/X11/rules/base
XKB: Failed to compile keymap
Keyboard initialization failed. This could be a missing or incorrect setup.
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[EE]
Fatal server error:
[EE] Failed to activate virtual core keyboard: 2(EE)
(EE)

Anyone who has run into this same problem and/or has the same card and has more expertise
than I in working toward a resolution?
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The card works out of the box on OpenBSD by the way. I do not recall its default window manager... and
would like to continue with geting Freebsd working.

Thanks in advance.
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I forgot to mention -- one of the past xorg.conf's had a setting to disable
the ryzen-embedded radeon which I think may mean xorg's detection of that
video type may incur breakage of the nvidia -- xorg one. And the setting [ which
I do not recall specifically, or even if it was set outside the xorg.conf ]
did not work at the time.
 
Trying to resolve this still in my spare time. I run into well-written [ per webpage
responses ] wayland setup guides [for Linux] and wonder if some documentation
details how to switch wholly from Xorg to Wayland if just a discrete desktop card
[ nvidia RTX ] is installed ** . I came across the following terms

In case wayland would suffice for the use cases I currently have in mind.

nvidia-modeset; nvidia_modeset
nvidia drm
udev
EnableGpuFirmware

But suppose that several should be excluded, setup in a particular way,
and removed or ignored in some fashion to start wayland without Xorg.
Is there a non-laptop guide already existing, I wonder?
 
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