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#1 2010-02-09 17:27:08

llawwehttam
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[SOLVED] Keyboard acting strange in tty1-6 + keymap problems

I have had a look at the wiki and had a good look through the forums but I can't really understand this.
I installed arch earlier with openbox and all was good.

I DON'T have an xorg.conf just to clarify.
In tty1-6 now and again I have to press keys twice to get them to appear once on the screen. Also I can't work out how to change my keymap to 'uk'  .Its fine in the tty's but not in the GUI. I changed it in /etc/rc.conf under the keymap section and rebooted but it hasn't changed.

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#2 2010-02-09 18:43:31

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Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard acting strange in tty1-6 + keymap problems

I had similar issues after upgrading from 2.6.31 to 2.6.32.

Have you got an Intel video card? If yes, with the new kernel KMS has been enabled by default and can lead to similar issues.
Take a look at this post: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 42#p680742

If you don't have an Intel video card you could probably ignore this post safely.

Cheers


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#3 2010-02-09 18:49:44

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Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard acting strange in tty1-6 + keymap problems

HELP!!!!

sorry but I am in a bit of trouble. I read the page here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xor … otplugging
and followed the instructions and now my layout is very strange.

When I type l (the first letter in my username) it appears 'x' and I can't use backspace it appears as 'x' as well. I cannot use ctrl-alt-f1 to get to a tty as it does nothing.
Could do with some help here...

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#4 2010-02-09 19:03:01

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Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard acting strange in tty1-6 + keymap problems

Its OK!

After that moment of mad panic I booted an ubuntu live cd and removed the offending file from /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi so I can now boot up and login again. The question is how do I now change my keymap?

EDIT: I have tried

$ setxkbmap uk

but I just get : "error loading new keyboard description"

Any help appreciated.

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#5 2010-02-09 19:18:20

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Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard acting strange in tty1-6 + keymap problems

Two different things:

1. Open /etc/rc.conf and set KEYMAP="uk"

2.

cp /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-keymap.fdi /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi

Then open /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi, search a string towards the end of the file and add uk to it in this way:

<merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">uk</merge>

You should be ok.


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#6 2010-02-09 19:55:29

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Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard acting strange in tty1-6 + keymap problems

rent0n wrote:

Two different things:

1. Open /etc/rc.conf and set KEYMAP="uk"

2.

cp /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-keymap.fdi /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi

Then open /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi, search a string towards the end of the file and add uk to it in this way:

<merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">uk</merge>

You should be ok.

I just tried that and now my keyboard is doing exactly the same as before so I will have to delete that file with the live cd.
Interestingly enough its now using the p key instead of x.

any other ideas???

Obviously Arch works well with a lot of fiddling but it would be nice if there were instructions added to the wiki for simple things like 'if you want to play dvd's you need to uncomment lines in fstab' etc....

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#7 2010-02-09 20:09:33

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Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard acting strange in tty1-6 + keymap problems

I also have the problem "press keys twice to get them to appear once on the screen" on TTY1-6. I don't know why it happens or how to fix it.

I am using Arch64, SLiM, and GNOME. I noticed the problem doesn't occur if I log out of GNOME.

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#8 2010-02-09 20:12:37

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Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard acting strange in tty1-6 + keymap problems

drcouzelis wrote:

I also have the problem "press keys twice to get them to appear once on the screen" on TTY1-6. I don't know why it happens or how to fix it.

I am using Arch64, SLiM, and GNOME. I noticed the problem doesn't occur if I log out of GNOME.

Interesting.... I am using 32bit though. Have you tried the fix in the posted link above?

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#9 2010-02-09 20:28:28

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Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard acting strange in tty1-6 + keymap problems

Oops! I forgot to mention that. I am using a Radeon video card, and I have KMS disabled. I'll try some of the other things in that thread when I get home tonight.

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#10 2010-02-10 14:47:18

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Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard acting strange in tty1-6 + keymap problems

Looking around it seems my best bet is to use the command setxkbmap but I'm not sure how to use it. I've had a look at the man page but don't really understand it.

I want to set my keyboard in 'X' to UK.

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#11 2010-02-12 15:37:08

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Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard acting strange in tty1-6 + keymap problems

I am a newbie using firefox.  My keyborad and mousehave locked up and my computer reboots on it's own help. Can someone walk me thru the fix?hBrooks

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#12 2010-02-15 11:55:34

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Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard acting strange in tty1-6 + keymap problems

After all that It was my own stupid fault after all.
The TTY screens can be set to keymap 'uk' but in xorg the uk keymap is called 'gb'.
I found it after looking through all qwerty keyboards in X.

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#13 2010-02-21 12:47:12

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Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard acting strange in tty1-6 + keymap problems

drcouzelis wrote:

I also have the problem "press keys twice to get them to appear once on the screen" on TTY1-6. I don't know why it happens or how to fix it.

same problem here on a fresh arch install with slim and xfce
when I kill X, keyboard in ttys work fine

any ideas?

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#14 2010-02-21 16:28:25

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Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard acting strange in tty1-6 + keymap problems

For keymap: did you check the rc.conf LOCALE. First time I installed Arch I spelt it wrong and had loads of problem because of it.
For tty, I'd check .bashrc, but it could be connected with LOCALE problem... I know that when I misspelled LOCALE in rc.conf the keymap in tty's was all wrong.
It worth of checking it, if it wasn't already...


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#15 2010-02-21 16:41:47

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Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard acting strange in tty1-6 + keymap problems

As MY problem and that mentioned in the name of the thread has been fixed I will mark the thread as solved. If anybody has a different problem please start a new thread.

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