Re: [gentoo-amd64] X keyboard problem on my amd64 box

["Lukas Oliva" <xoliva02@stud.feec.vutbr.cz>]

On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:29:29 +0200, Beso <givemesugarr@gmail.com> wrote:

> 2007/6/29, Lukas Oliva <xoliva02@stud.feec.vutbr.cz>:
>>
>>
>> >> My graphic card is Nvidia FX Go 5700.
>> >
>> >
>> > you should install also the nvidia drivers and then eselect the nvidia
>> > opengl instead of the xorg one, cause it's much more performant....
>> > follow
>> > the nvidia howtos on gentoo-wiki for that if you haven't done it  
>> yet....
>>
>> I did so and nvidia is correctly running.
>>
>> > anyway this is only the xorg server package, not the
>> > internationalizzation
>> > package which has the voices about the linguas.... for me (kde user)  
>> is
>> > kde-base/kde-i18n which has various linguas compiled....
>> well, I prefer gnome and fluxbox if performance neede. But it was all
>> running ok till some update, but I had not time to solve it at that  
>> time.
>
>
> you'll need to look for that update and try to fix it cause it may be  
> that
> one that is breaking you keyb layout....

You are righ, the problem is that I am not sure when did this happenedand  
as I update quite often, I am not able to find it out.

>
>> the absence of the
>> > voice "LINGUAS ="en cz"" may say that it should have installed all the
>> > default languages.... if you're using some other window manager than  
>> kde
>> > you
>> > should search on which is the internazionalization package on your
>> > windowmanager....
>>
>> Oh, this is interesting, I thought, it should be "en cs" that I am  
>> using.
>> Sorry for being confusing, I will attach the make.conf. In my mind, this
>> isn't problem of window manager as gnome was running and it has no
>> localization package.
>
>
> hold on a sec, i don't know if is cz or cs.... you should look for you
> internazionalizzation settings....
>
>> but first i have forgotten of the x11-apps/setxkbmap package which
>> > controls
>> > the x keyb changer.... see if it's installed....
>>    Yes, it is, currenlty I use these packages perhaps related to xkb
>>    [ I] x11-apps/setxkbmap (1.0.2):  Controls the keyboard layout of a
>> running X server.
>>    [ I] x11-apps/xkbcomp (1.0.3):  compile XKB keyboard description
>>    [ I] x11-apps/xkbutils (1.0.1):  X.Org xkbutils application
>>    [ I] x11-libs/libxkbfile (1.0.4):  X.Org xkbfile library
>>    [ I] x11-libs/libxkbui (1.0.2):  X.Org xkbui library
>>    [ I] x11-libs/libxklavier (3.1):  High level XKB library
>>    [ I] x11-misc/xkbdata (1.0.1):  X.Org xkbdata data
>>    [ I] x11-misc/xxkb (1.10):  eXtended XKB - assign different keymaps  
>> to
>> different windows
>>    [ I] x11-plugins/gkrellm-xkb (1.05):  XKB keyboard switcher for
>> gkrellm2
>
>
> wow....  you have a lot of packages installed but i don't see the one  
> that i
> was telling you about.... try emerging it....

Well, that one is setxkbmap, no? If so than I have it.
I *am* able to switch keyboard using this in terminal, but it is not the  
way I would like to do.
>
>> it may be due to it that
>> > the system doesn't switch the keyb layout.... and another thing, on  
>> kde,
>> > you
>> > should first enable the shortcut on the kde admin pannel....
>>   This is not afaik necessary in gnome.
>
>
> i don't know how gnome works, cause i hate it!!!! i'm a true kde crusader
> against gnome/evolution/mono, which now are more and more integrated as
> windows and internet exploder....
>

Ok, I can not tell. Just for me gnome seems to be simple and elegant  
comparing to KDE eyecandy.

>>
>> >>
>> > then you're using the 2007 layout.... when you update world you update
>> > many
>> > system packages, as gcc, libtool or baselayout.... the experimental
>> > issue is
>> > only is you use the tilde packages, which are still unstable.... you
>> > should
>> > not use this as an universal keyword in make.conf, but the packages  
>> that
>> > you
>> > need and that are still under the unstable branch should be put in the
>> > /etc/portage/package.keywords file.... if you're using only stable  
>> packs
>> > you
>> > will not have any issue due to experimental things.... at least for  
>> what
>> > i
>> > know of it....
>>
>> Well, sorry I should not say experimental but I was told that there can  
>> be
>> some problems on 2007.1, so I have not switched yet.
>> ls -l /etc/ | grep make.profile
>> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root        root       51 2007-05-06 14:42 make.profile ->
>> ..//usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2006.1
>> Maybe it would be good idea to switch, if you have not experienced any
>> problems.
>
>
> hmmm.... you've already switched to it.... the configuration in the  
> profile
> is not much changed and the packages you're using are udated.... this is  
> the
> best thing on gentoo: it isn't bonded anymore to versioning as other
> distributions.... i've started with 2007.0 and now i'm using a very  
> tainted
> gentoo, with sabayon packages, i've updated the baselayout and  with a  
> lot
> of tilde packages and with paludis instead of portage and my system is
> stable and i haven't experienced any great issue....  if you look at the  
> two
> profiles you'll see that there are 2 use flags changed and you probably  
> have
> already enabled the 2 use flags that are enabled by default.... these are
> the changes between the 2007.0 and 2006.1....
>

Yes, you are right. I switched it and do some recompilation. Nevertheless  
this does not seem to solve my problem as none of the recompiled packages  
has todo with gnome/X.

>    Lukas
>>
>
>
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