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RAH

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[SOLVED] Characters Issue

Hello,

Recently after upgrading Xorg via Pacman it crashed my system and after following advice on this forum to delete the xorg.conf file it resolved this issue.  However since then I'm having these issues and considering xorg.conf is no longer being used I'm not sure how to resolve this.

My at symbol turns out as "
My GBP symbol turns out as #

How do I fix the character encoding?

Thanks.

Same issue as here:  http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=50686

Last edited by RAH (2008-12-28 12:19:16)

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Re: [SOLVED] Characters Issue

Have you read the warnings pacman gave while upgrading to the latest Xorg? The solution was in there .

You need to copy over the fdi file for the keyboard in /usr/share/hal/somewhere and drop it in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/, then modify it to fit your needs. Restart hal and X subsequently, and it should be fixed.

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RAH

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Re: [SOLVED] Characters Issue

Thanks but I can't seem to find the fdi file, any ideas?

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Re: [SOLVED] Characters Issue

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xor … otplugging

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Re: [SOLVED] Characters Issue

Thanks but I can't seem to find the fdi file, any ideas?

Yes. How about reading the front page news? Or the wiki, like bgc1954 gently suggested...

You should subscribe to the RSS feed, that way you're always up to date (provided you read it).

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RAH

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Re: [SOLVED] Characters Issue

I've read the wiki article and adjusted the fdi file then copied it over per the instructions however after rebooting the issue remains.

bgc1954

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Re: [SOLVED] Characters Issue

If you can't get hotplugging to work, your only option might be to disable hotplugging as per the wiki.

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RAH

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Re: [SOLVED] Characters Issue

If you can't get hotplugging to work, your only option might be to disable hotplugging as per the wiki.

How do I disable it if the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf doesn't even exist?

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Re: [SOLVED] Characters Issue

How about

# vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf
<press Insert>
<start typing>

You can just drop in what's needed (like people with non-US keyboards before used to run X without config, except for they keyboard). The principle stays the same - let X handle what it handles correctly, consider your configuration file an override to set things straight.

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RAH

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Re: [SOLVED] Characters Issue

I pasted the following in the file and rebooted without success:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option    "CoreKeyboard"
        Option    "XkbRules" "xorg"
        Option    "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option    "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection

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Re: [SOLVED] Characters Issue

Did you disable hotplugging? If you read the links, it should be clear you should
a) go with the flow and set up HAL to configure your input devices
b) decide it's a mess, tell Xorg not to rely on HAL for the input devices, and set up your Xorg.conf the old-fashioned way if necessary.

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RAH

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Re: [SOLVED] Characters Issue

Running the command setxkbmap gb fixes the problem.  I tried adding this to /.xinitrc however it's not setting on startup.

RAH

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Re: [SOLVED] Characters Issue

Anyone?

jacko

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Re: [SOLVED] Characters Issue

rc.local

or you could add

Section "ServerFlags"
     Option "AutoAddDevices" "False"
   EndSection

to xorg.conf
create it if you don't have it

Again, if you read the wiki, what I have just repeated is pratically taken word for word from the wiki
How do I turn this crap off

Last edited by jacko (2008-12-26 18:57:12)