Greek keyboard broken on xorg 7.0 (solved)

scarecrow · 2006-02-22 16:31:23

Not an arch fault, it applies for all distros... but while on others is fixable, on Arch it's not.
xorg 6.9.0 /7.0 has changed the greek locale definition from "el" to "gr". No deal it seems, but moifying the xorg.conf accordingly fails to bring greek support to X.
On other dirstos I was able to have greek keyboard by simply copying the "el" file from xorg 6.8.2 to /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols, and keeping the old xorg.conf. However, on Arch's xorg 7.0 that remedy does not work.
Any ideas?
(I know... searching at Greek Linux forums. Believe it or not, I've found nothing!).

PS: posting here because I cannot, for some reason, log in bugs.archlinux.org

scarecrow · 2006-02-22 17:06:55

OK, here's a dirty workaround:
- Copy "el" from xorg 6.8.2 to /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols
- Modify /etc/X11/xorg.conf , replacing
Option "XkbRules" "Xfree86" (autogenerated by hwd -x)
to
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
-Restart xserver.

However, a clean solution should be preferrable...

Snowman · 2006-02-23 01:42:49

The keymaps were renamed in xorg7. For example, the French Canadian keyboard changed its name from ca_enhanced to ca(fr).
If pl stands for polytonic, try gr(polytonic).

You should also replace, in xorg.conf, all reference to xfree86 by xorg.

And hwd doesn't work with xorg7 yet. There's a suggestion in a thread for a fix.

scarecrow · 2006-02-23 05:45:16

Indeed, hwd doesn't see xorg 7, and for some reason after a full system restart I have now greek on my keyboard by changing "el" to "gr", which was not working right after installing xorg 7... oh well.

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#1 2006-02-22 16:31:23

Greek keyboard broken on xorg 7.0 (solved)

#2 2006-02-22 17:06:55

Re: Greek keyboard broken on xorg 7.0 (solved)

#3 2006-02-23 01:42:49

Re: Greek keyboard broken on xorg 7.0 (solved)

#4 2006-02-23 05:45:16

Re: Greek keyboard broken on xorg 7.0 (solved)

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