keyboard screwed up

amdarch64 · 2008-10-11 19:17:36

Hello folks, this has been a problem for some months now and I can't figure it out. The keyboard is just messed up. The keys that dont work are the arrow keys, and pressing them does wierd pastes like bn<<gh . plus the down arrow key highlights the address bar in firefox, which is strange.
End, Home do not work, End pastes 478 if cursor is inbetween characters. The + key on numpad pastes qerui and the enter key pastes akasd and different things each time.

keymap in rc.conf is KEYMAP="us"
input device in XF86CONFIG is
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"

in KDE keyboard layout, I have USA layout and us keymap. with 104key model.

i have no mapped shortcuts to do anything to the keys that dont work properly. please help !

deej · 2008-10-12 15:58:49

Have you tried putting:

Option "XkbLayout" "us"

in the InputDevice / keyboard section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf ?

Oh, I see you're using XF86CONFIG ... try it anywho.

Deej

amdarch64 · 2008-10-12 17:52:18

damn, problem still remains. no difference with xkblayout
d3478%^+

amdarch64 · 2008-10-13 20:44:18

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amdarch64 · 2008-10-14 23:56:34

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deej · 2008-10-16 20:19:46

Have you tried changing to a uk keyboard ? If this works as a uk keyboard should, then we
have eliminated one possible problem.

Strange though, I've had similar experiences on odd occasions - keypad only working as a keypad
if 'NumLock' is off; and other such anomolies. You haven't, by any chance installed an nVidia
binary from the nVidia site, have you ? I know whenever I do this, you can generally bet
something strange is going to happen !

Deej

amdarch64 · 2008-10-18 01:13:44

well, switching to different keymap achieved no difference in the strange keyboard behaviour. also i have not installed from nvidia; it has been only from pacman.

amdarch64 · 2008-10-18 20:18:03

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amdarch64 · 2008-10-19 17:50:40

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amdarch64 · 2008-10-21 00:20:51

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deej · 2008-10-21 12:23:12

Could you perhaps post your xorg.conf / Xf86config file here, to give people
something to examine. It could be that your keyboard is being identified incorrectly -
a pc-three-key-keyboard ( ) instead of a pc105, or some such thing.

Deej

slumslayer · 2008-10-21 15:34:10

Are you using the evdev driver ? Got the same problem today and solved it by uninstalling xf86-input-evdev and using xf86-input-keyboard instead.
Putting Driver "keyboard" in xorg.conf was not enought as Hal was still picking evdev for my keyboard.

FALK · 2008-10-21 15:56:42

I can confirm this is an issue with xf86-input-evdev.

amdarch64 · 2008-10-21 22:49:37

slumslayer wrote:

Are you using the evdev driver ? Got the same problem today and solved it by uninstalling xf86-input-evdev and using xf86-input-keyboard instead.
Putting Driver "keyboard" in xorg.conf was not enought as Hal was still picking evdev for my keyboard.

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how do i find out what keyboard driver i have ? its a usb+ saitek eclipse v1

slumslayer · 2008-10-22 04:56:19

In /etc/X11/xorg.conf,

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    [bold]Driver         "keyboard"[/bold]
    Option         "XkbLayout" "be"
EndSection

Look also in /var/log/Xorg.log for evdev

grep -i evdev /var/log/Xorg.0.log

But if you have xf86-input-evdev installed and you are using Hal, then you're probably using evdev.

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