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fishonadish

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Registered: 2006-11-04

Posts: 130

[solved]some keys producing wrong character but layout correctly set

EDIT: Forgot to mark this post as solved before.  In case anyone else has this problem, my xkbdlayout ought to have been 'gb' rather than 'uk'.
The keymap setting in rc.conf is 'uk', and works fine at the cli, though.

Hi

I have a uk keyboard and some keys are producing the wrong result.
The following is the input section in xorg.conf:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "keyboard"
        Option      "CoreKeyboard"
        Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
        Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option "XkbLayout" "uk"
        Option "XkbVariant" ""
EndSection

(I'm using gnome, but the gconf keys are unset, and set to be over-ridden with system settings).

The problem is principally that I can't get to a virtual terminal because ctrl-alt-F1 etc. don't work.
Individually each of these keys works fine.
In gnome-terminal ctrl-alt-F1 etc. give P,Q,R,S and then ;7~ for the rest.  In other programs they give nothing.  Shift-3 is giving the wrong character too.

Is this a problem with my setup or with a driver?  The keyboard is a Compaq KB-0311, and it has worked fine with other distributions (perhaps because of older version of driver/xorg or something?)

Thanks
Fishonadish

Edit:  Just noticed daedalusman's response to another problem of mine at http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=28652, saying the new xorg has changed some things with the keyboard drivers - could this be the problem?  Although, the ctrl-alt-Fx problem has been there since I installed  Arch a few months ago.

Last edited by fishonadish (2007-02-15 16:05:31)