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reefer

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From: Norway

Registered: 2004-11-13

Posts: 14

All keyboard actions makes Xorg change resolution (kind of solved)

I'm having trouble with the keyboard setup on my Arch installation.
When Arch reaches the KDM login screen and I'm ready to enter the password
every key I press on my keyboard just changes the resolution (just like Ctrl+).

I had this problem earlier, but solved it by adding

export XKEYSYMDB=/usr/share/X11/XKeysymDB

before KDM starts.

This no longer works.

I have tried both USB and PS/2 keyboards, and the same occurs with both.

This is my xorg.conf file (keyboard section):

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver          "kbd"
        Option          "CoreKeyboard"
        Option          "XkbRules"      "xorg"
        Option          "XkbModel"      "pc105"
        Option          "XkbLayout"     "no"
EndSection

I've been googling all around, and the only reason I can seem to find has
to do with xkbcomp. I have not found a solution yet, but hope that some
of you can help me, as my computer is now unusable except remote login :-

Last edited by reefer (2008-06-21 12:32:52)

ThomasAdam

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From: Southampton, England

Registered: 2005-10-26

Posts: 149

Re: All keyboard actions makes Xorg change resolution (kind of solved)

Can we see your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file, please?

Use a pastebin though.

-- Thomas Adam

reefer

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From: Norway

Registered: 2004-11-13

Posts: 14

Re: All keyboard actions makes Xorg change resolution (kind of solved)

Yes, indeed.

Here's the link:

http://pastebin.com/f175404c5

Can't see anything wrong there.

reefer

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From: Norway

Registered: 2004-11-13

Posts: 14

Re: All keyboard actions makes Xorg change resolution (kind of solved)

I tried starting as a single user, and then using startx.

This is the log:

http://pastebin.com/f562672c

So obviously there is "some" information wrong "somewhere" :-)

reefer

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From: Norway

Registered: 2004-11-13

Posts: 14

Re: All keyboard actions makes Xorg change resolution (kind of solved)

Found another thread with a similar problem.
http://bbs.archlinux.org/post.php?tid=50221

I finally got it working, but it's not an elegant solution.
First I reinstalled all xorg packages, and then ssh'ed in to the problem machine,
used the export command I talked about earlier

export XKEYSYMDB=/usr/share/X11/XKeysymDB

and did an

/etc/rc.d/kdm restart

After that, the keyboard suddenly works again. Both PS/2 and USB.

It seems that I am not the only one experiencing this, so maybe I sould file
a report.