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tetrapilotomator

Member

Registered: 2010-10-22

Posts: 2

Unable to acces 3rd and 4th level symbols in Xorg

Hello everyone,

I'm quite new to arch, but "not afraid of the command line". My learning curve is steep, a little too steep at the moment. I've got an issue, I'm unable to solve: Entering an X-session (I use awesome) I am unable to access the 3rd and 4th level symbols on my keyboard, meaning those symbols that involve pressing AltGr, such as |, {, [.... I've got the problem with xterm, Eterm and lilyterm. I've searched the Arch-wiki, the Xorg-wiki and this forum for help, without success. Here are some symptoms:

After exiting any X-Session, I find the following message on the screen. Severals users seem to have it, but no one reported keyboard issuses similar to mine:

The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
>Warning: Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but <RALT> has 2 symbols
> Ignoring extra symbols

Another symptom, which I don't find in the forum is the output of showconsolefont:

# showconsolefont 
bug: getfont called with count<256

In /var/log/Xorg.0.log I get no errors and the following warnigns:

[   706.407] (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
[   706.416] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa
[   706.416] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fbdev

I already tried to correctly map the AltGr in the .xmod:

keycode  64 = Mode_switch Meta_R Mode_switch Meta_R

and called it

$ xmodmap .xmod

as I do this, I get the same keyboardoutput with and without pressed AltGr-Key (which has the keycode 64).

I used the original .xmod configuration again

keycode  64 = Alt_R Meta_R Alt_R Meta_R

and entered to my /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ the following lines:

Section "InputDevice"
 Identifier "Keyboard0"
 Driver "kbd"
 Option "XkbOptions" "lv3:ralt_switch_multikey"
EndSection

I also tried

 Identifier "evdev keyboard catchall"
 Driver "evdev"

and

 Option "XkbOptions" "lv3:ralt_switch"

My whole /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ right now is the following:

 
Section "InputClass"
 Identifier "evdev pointer catchall"
 MatchIsPointer "on"
 MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
 Driver "evdev"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
 Identifier "evdev keyboard catchall"
 MatchIsKeyboard "on"
 MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
 Driver "evdev"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
 Identifier "evdev touchpad catchall"
 MatchIsTouchpad "on"
 MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
 Driver "evdev"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
 Identifier "evdev tablet catchall"
 MatchIsTablet "on"
 MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
 Driver "evdev"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
 Identifier "evdev touchscreen catchall"
 MatchIsTouchscreen "on"
 MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
 Driver "evdev"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
 Identifier "Keyboard0"
 Driver "kbd"
 Option "XkbOptions" "lv3:ralt_switch_multikey"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
 Identifier "Keyboard Defaults"
 MatchIsKeyboard "yes"
 Option "XkbLayout" "de"
 Option "XkbModel" "apple_laptop"
# kill session with ctrl + alt + backspace:
 Option "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
EndSection

I appreciate any help, comments and tipps on .configs and .logs I should have a look at, as I whish to get my Arch ready for everyday university use.

tetrapilot.

Last edited by tetrapilotomator (2010-10-24 18:35:42)

tetrapilotomator

Member

Registered: 2010-10-22

Posts: 2

Re: Unable to acces 3rd and 4th level symbols in Xorg

To any moderator: could you please move this post to "Desktop Environments", as it is related to Xorg and maybe someone might have an idea in this forum. Thank you. tetrapilot.