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neonl

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From: Lisboa

Registered: 2007-12-27

Posts: 26

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PT Keymap - xorg upgrade

I don't know exactly what caused this but i think it was the latest xorg upgrade. Everything was working fine but, after the update, when i restart X, my keymap is set to the default us. The xorg.conf hasn't changed so i don't know whats happening.

Here's the keyboard part in xorg.conf

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Simple Layout"
    Screen         "Screen 1" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

(...)

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Keyboard1"
    Driver         "kbd"
    Option         "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
    Option         "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option         "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option         "XkbLayout" "pt"
EndSection

Looking at the xorg.0.log i saw this lines but i dont understand them very well...

(**) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: always reports core events
(**) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Device: "/dev/input/event1"
(II) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Found keys
(II) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Configuring as keyboard
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "AT Translated Set 2 keyboard" (type: KEYBOARD)
(**) Option "xkb_rules" "base"
(**) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: xkb_rules: "base"
(**) Option "xkb_model" "evdev"
(**) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: xkb_model: "evdev"
(**) Option "xkb_layout" "us"
(**) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: xkb_layout: "us"

Help, please.

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azleifel

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Registered: 2007-10-28

Posts: 486

Re: PT Keymap - xorg upgrade

If you a look at http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xor … otplugging you'll find that you have two alternatives, either disable input hotplugging by adding Option "AutoAddDevices" "False" to the ServerFlags section of xorg.conf or configure hal/evdev to use the correct keymap.  (If you run gnome and go for the second option then it won't work unless you have the latest patched xorg-server 1.5.3-3 package installed.)

Last edited by azleifel (2008-12-06 22:54:51)

neonl

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From: Lisboa

Registered: 2007-12-27

Posts: 26

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Re: PT Keymap - xorg upgrade

azleifel, thanks a lot! I had no idea of that... googled a bit about my issue and gave up, so i asked here, at the forum.

I still don't understand exactly what is hotplugging for (that article is too big and i'm not in the mood of large readings), but, anyway, i disabled it and things are working normally again... at least i think so.

Many thanks again

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"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it."
Karl Marx
Thee Last.fm