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zephyrus17

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Registered: 2008-06-15

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latest gnome update destroys keyboard settings

well, as the subject says, my keyboard was fine until the update. I'm using gnome, by the way. My layout isn't dvorak, and I can't change to it, and my "up" arrow key has become the 'screenshot' key. Help on fixing this?

pythonist

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From: Rome, Italy

Registered: 2007-11-07

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Re: latest gnome update destroys keyboard settings

Hi, it's broken for me too, but I'm using KDEMod. Hitting the up arrow key opens up ksnapshot. In addition, hwd doesn't work anymore...

JGC

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Registered: 2003-12-03

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Re: latest gnome update destroys keyboard settings

Be sure to have xorg-server 1.5.3-3 installed and set your keyboard model to "Evdev managed keyboard" inside GNOME or KDE. Setting it to anything different breaks keymaps and attaches keycodes to different keys.

zephyrus17

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Registered: 2008-06-15

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Re: latest gnome update destroys keyboard settings

Where do I set the evdev option? It's not in the GNOME keyboard preferences

freakcode

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From: São Paulo - Brazil

Registered: 2007-11-03

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Re: latest gnome update destroys keyboard settings

It's a common issue related to the way the latest Xorg configures the keyboard. See http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xor … d_Settings , http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xor … otplugging and all the topics on the forum with people complaining about this.

zephyrus17

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Registered: 2008-06-15

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Re: latest gnome update destroys keyboard settings

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
    Option "XkbModel" "thinkpad60"
    Option "XkbLayout" "us"
    Option "XkbVariant" "dvorak,us"
    Option "XkbOptions" "grp:lctrl_lshift_toggle"
EndSection

doesn't seem to work

zenlord

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2006-05-24

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Re: latest gnome update destroys keyboard settings

Did you read the links that freakcode provided for you and that are linked to several dozens of times in the past two weeks?

The configuration of input devices is now handled by HAL, not in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

Zl.

zephyrus17

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Registered: 2008-06-15

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Re: latest gnome update destroys keyboard settings

Opps. Thanks for the sharp reminder. I fixed it.

zenlord

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2006-05-24

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Re: latest gnome update destroys keyboard settings

:-)