[gentoo-user] hal + xorg hell part 2

[gentoo-user] hal + xorg hell part 2

[Helmut Jarausch]

Hi,

I'm still struggling with xorg + hal

Now, my PS/2 keyboard translates certain keys in a strange
way, e.g. 'insert' 'home' 'PgUp' 'PgDn' etc.

Xorg.0.log contains the following lines which I don't understand
(II) config/hal: Adding input device AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
(**) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: always reports core events
(**) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Device: "/dev/input/event0"
(WW) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: device file already in use. Ignoring.
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(EE) PreInit returned NULL for "AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed


Any help is very much appreciated,
thanks,
Helmut.


P.S.

I tried both drivers
kbd  and evdev (since my mouse uses evdev)

-- 
Helmut Jarausch

Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany

[gentoo-user] Re: hal + xorg hell part 2

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Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm still struggling with xorg + hal
> 
> Now, my PS/2 keyboard translates certain keys in a strange
> way, e.g. 'insert' 'home' 'PgUp' 'PgDn' etc.
> 
> Xorg.0.log contains the following lines which I don't understand
> (II) config/hal: Adding input device AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
> (**) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: always reports core events
> (**) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Device: "/dev/input/event0"
> (WW) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: device file already in use. Ignoring.
> (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
> (EE) PreInit returned NULL for "AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
> (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed
> 
> 
> Any help is very much appreciated,
> thanks,
> Helmut.
> 
> 
> P.S.
> 
> I tried both drivers
> kbd  and evdev (since my mouse uses evdev)
> 

You are probably setting the xkb keyboard type incorrectly, assuming you
are using Gnome, KDE, or Xfce - You need to tell the desktop environment
that you have an "evdev" keyboard, instead of whatever keyboard you
actually have, and use the "evdev" driver (if I'm not mistaken). I had
the same problem a few months ago when I upgraded, and that fixed it.

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