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sunn

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From: Norway

Registered: 2007-10-24

Posts: 41

AltGr key not working after upgrade to Xorg 7.3

So, I upgraded to Xorg 7.3, and everything seemingly worked fine.
Then I tried writing an e-mail address, and pressing AltGr+2 which should give me an (at) symbol didn't work. After fiddling about abit, I concluded that  AltGr did not work at all.

I tried the suggested solutions in the wiki, but none worked for me. I also tried setting Option "XkvVariant "nodeadkeys", but no luck there either.

Here's the keyboard section of my xorg.conf:

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "kbd"
    Option        "CoreKeyboard"
    Option        "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option        "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option        "XkbLayout" "no"
    Option        "XkbVariant" ""
EndSection

This worked like it should before the upgrade.

As you may have noticed, I have a norwegian keyboard. And if it helps, it's a laptop keyboard - I have a HP nc8430.

Pressing and releasing AltGr in xev produces this output:

FocusIn event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window 0x2200001,
    mode NotifyUngrab, detail NotifyAncestor

KeymapNotify event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
    keys:  1   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   
           0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0

I'm not entirely sure if this is relevant tough.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

EDIT: I should perhaps add this:
I'm not using a composite manager like Compiz or Beryl, and I do not have composite nor AIGLX enabled in my xorg.conf.
I'm using the fglrx driver.

Last edited by sunn (2007-11-07 16:28:46)

sunn

Member

From: Norway

Registered: 2007-10-24

Posts: 41

Re: AltGr key not working after upgrade to Xorg 7.3

It seems the problem has resolved itself. I did a pacman -Syu today, and although only libsamplerate was upgraded, my AltGr key functions properly again. Kind of weird, as libsamplerate seems to have something to do with audio.. But hey, it works, and I'm not complaining.