Re: [gentoo-user] lost deadkeys layout

[Luigi Pinna <mailing-gentoo@sailorferris.com>]

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Alle 21:28, martedì 4 luglio 2006, Benno Schulenberg ha scritto:
> Okay. What says 'grep -A2 Option /var/log/Xorg.0.log' ?

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(**) Option "CoreKeyboard"
(**) Keyboard1: Core Keyboard
(**) Option "Protocol" "standard"
(**) Keyboard1: Protocol: standard
(**) Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
(**) Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
(**) Keyboard1: XkbRules: "xorg"
(**) Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
(**) Keyboard1: XkbModel: "pc105"
(**) Option "XkbLayout" "de"
(**) Keyboard1: XkbLayout: "de"
(**) Option "CustomKeycodes" "off"
(**) Keyboard1: CustomKeycodes disabled
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Keyboard1" (type: KEYBOARD)



> > My question is: how is it possible that the package is marked
> > stable if there is a bug like it?
>
> Maybe because you're the first one to run into it?  Since probably
> few people do this upgrade-downgrade-upgrade cycle.  Maybe you made
> a small mistake somewhere along the way?  Maybe you had some
> package still masked for some reason, or forgot to unmask another?

I waited until the stable version of xorg: I tried it some time ago and 
I had the same problem, and after it I had problem with downgrade: I 
installed the system another time... Now I didn't up-down-update xorg, 

> > In a your link says that the
> > problem is solved in the 7.1 and no patch for the 7.0?
>
> Probably there is no problem, just some files that for some reason
> went missing, something that's cured by a reinstallation of the
> affected package or packages.

I didn't reinstall it, only the normal emerge -uD world comand

> So, do a 'genlop --list --date 5 days ago', or something similar, to
> find out which packages got emerged for the upgrade of Xorg, and
> then start re-emerging those (not by version number, but by name),
> one by one, and keep restarting X to see when it gets fixed.

I'll try it

> From another angle: have you tried using KDE or GNOME to control the
> nationality of the keyboard?  It should fail too, but one never
> knows.
> Benno

I use kde and I tried that option... It doesn't work!
Luigi

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