Re: [gentoo-user] More whining about evdev and Xorg 1.5

[Geralt <usr.gentoo@googlemail.com>]

Hi,

did you try "setkbmap" in a terminal to select manually your keyboard
layout, model and variant? I had some problems with my keyboard
layout, too some time ago and for me switching to the most recent
xorg-server package solved the issue.


Geralt.

On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 5:53 AM,  <felix@crowfix.com> wrote:
> I am beginning to feel that either I am incredibly dense or everybody
> else is, unless absolutelyeverybody is, and I am one of the few who is
> not too proud to admit it :-O
>
> I have a ~amd64 system with xorg 1.5.2, and running without any X
> config file is the only way I can get any kind of X system running,
> but then various keys don't work -- LEFT, DOWN, END, PAGE DOWN at
> least, but RIGHT, UP, INS, DEL, HOME, PAGE UP work.  I have fvwm
> configured to recognize the Windows MENU key but that doesn't work
> now, however I am not worried about that now, and expect it is one of
> the XkbOptions and not important right now.  I could be wrong.
>
> I have whatever defaults come in /etc/hal/fdi/policy.  I have tried
> variations in there, but they either do nothing or make it worse.
>
> I have asked on the forums, used forum and google search, and this
> seems to be a very common problem, yet the suggested solutions are all
> over the map, and after trying several which had no effect or a bad
> effect, I have gone back to no mods at all, a nice virgin X11 and Hal,
> except I have a .xmodmaps which seems to make no difference so I just
> leave it in place for the time being.  I can live with this, not
> happily, but better than fighting a downgrade.
>
> Is there any definitive solution to this, any definitive guide?
>
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