[gentoo-user] KDM: Keyboard problems after X update

[gentoo-user] KDM: Keyboard problems after X update

[Alex Schuster]

Hi there!

I'm in the middle of a world update, but X stuff seems to be updated now. 
The problem is that the keyboard does not work as before.

It's a german keyboard. Here are expected keys, and the results:

ß \
ö [
ä ]
ü @

Keys like @ (Alt-Gr q), | (Alt-Gr <) and ~ (Alt-Gr +} do not work at all. 
Same goes for console switching via Ctrl-Alt-Fn.

There is a warning message in the X log, I assume this has to do with it:

[...]
(**) Option "CoreKeyboard"
(**) Keyboard0: Core Keyboard
(**) Option "Protocol" "standard"
(**) Keyboard0: Protocol: standard
(**) Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
(**) Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
(**) Keyboard0: XkbRules: "xorg"
(**) Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
(**) Keyboard0: XkbModel: "pc105"
(**) Option "XkbLayout" "de"
(**) Keyboard0: XkbLayout: "de"
(**) Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
(**) Keyboard0: XkbVariant: "nodeadkeys"
(**) Option "CustomKeycodes" "off"
(**) Keyboard0: CustomKeycodes disabled
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Keyboard0" (type: KEYBOARD)
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse0" (type: MOUSE)
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "NVIDIA Event Handler" (type: 
Other)
(WW) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap
[...]

There are quite some references to this message, but many are unresolved. 
Someone installed xkbutils, this did not help me, and I do not see why it 
should. Some people xmodmap a lot, but this would be a workaround, while 
I am interested in a cleaner solution.


The weird thing is that this happens only when using KDM, not if I startx 
from the text console. Does this ring a bell for someone?


Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option      "XKbModel"   "pc105"
        Option      "XKbLayout"  "de"
        Option      "XKbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
EndSection

	Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM: Keyboard problems after X update

[Jean-Marc Beaune]

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Hi,

Did emerge told you to update some config files?

/JM

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org> wrote:

> Hi there!
>
> I'm in the middle of a world update, but X stuff seems to be updated now.
> The problem is that the keyboard does not work as before.
>
> It's a german keyboard. Here are expected keys, and the results:
>
> ß \
> ö [
> ä ]
> ü @
>
> Keys like @ (Alt-Gr q), | (Alt-Gr <) and ~ (Alt-Gr +} do not work at all.
> Same goes for console switching via Ctrl-Alt-Fn.
>
> There is a warning message in the X log, I assume this has to do with it:
>
> [...]
> (**) Option "CoreKeyboard"
> (**) Keyboard0: Core Keyboard
> (**) Option "Protocol" "standard"
> (**) Keyboard0: Protocol: standard
> (**) Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
> (**) Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
> (**) Keyboard0: XkbRules: "xorg"
> (**) Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
> (**) Keyboard0: XkbModel: "pc105"
> (**) Option "XkbLayout" "de"
> (**) Keyboard0: XkbLayout: "de"
> (**) Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
> (**) Keyboard0: XkbVariant: "nodeadkeys"
> (**) Option "CustomKeycodes" "off"
> (**) Keyboard0: CustomKeycodes disabled
> (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Keyboard0" (type: KEYBOARD)
> (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse0" (type: MOUSE)
> (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "NVIDIA Event Handler" (type:
> Other)
> (WW) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap
> [...]
>
> There are quite some references to this message, but many are unresolved.
> Someone installed xkbutils, this did not help me, and I do not see why it
> should. Some people xmodmap a lot, but this would be a workaround, while
> I am interested in a cleaner solution.
>
>
> The weird thing is that this happens only when using KDM, not if I startx
> from the text console. Does this ring a bell for someone?
>
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
>        Driver      "kbd"
>        Option      "XKbModel"   "pc105"
>        Option      "XKbLayout"  "de"
>        Option      "XKbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
> EndSection
>
>        Wonko
>
>


-- 
Jean-Marc

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Re: [gentoo-user] KDM: Keyboard problems after X update

[Alex Schuster]

Jean-Marc Beaune writes:

> Did emerge told you to update some config files?

Sure, LOTS. Especially in /usr/share/X11/xkb, which is now added to 
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK. But everything has been updated already using 
dispatch-conf.

	Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM: Keyboard problems after X update

[Alex Schuster]

I wrote:

> I'm in the middle of a world update, but X stuff seems to be updated
> now. The problem is that the keyboard does not work as before.

I think the solution was to upgrade xorg-server. I thought it had already 
been upgraded along with all the other X stuff, but it wasn't.

420 packages already built, 66 more packages to go. This 700 MHz mahine 
definitely needs an upgrade.

	Wonko