J.Pilk at tesco
Mar 11, 2009, 3:25 AM
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Re: xorg-x11-server problem?: was nvidia 180.35: keyboard layout has changed:
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Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
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> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 5:57 PM, John Pilkington <J.Pilk [at] tesco
> <mailto:J.Pilk [at] tesco>> wrote:
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> Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
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> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Paulo Cavalcanti
> <promac [at] gmail <mailto:promac [at] gmail>
> <mailto:promac [at] gmail <mailto:promac [at] gmail>>> wrote:
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> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 9:31 AM, John Pilkington
> <J.Pilk [at] tesco <mailto:J.Pilk [at] tesco>
> <mailto:J.Pilk [at] tesco <mailto:J.Pilk [at] tesco>>> wrote:
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> Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
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> > 2009/2/26 John Pilkington <J.Pilk [at] tesco
> <mailto:J.Pilk [at] tesco>
> <mailto:J.Pilk [at] tesco <mailto:J.Pilk [at] tesco>>
> <mailto:J.Pilk [at] tesco <mailto:J.Pilk [at] tesco>
> <mailto:J.Pilk [at] tesco <mailto:J.Pilk [at] tesco>>>>
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> > My keyboard layout is apparently now the us
> version (@ and "
> > interchanged), although /etc/X11/xorg.conf still
> shows it
> as gb
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> > how can a display driver can be related to a keyboard
> configuration in
> > any ways?
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> I'm not alone in having keyboard problems: see
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> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=128959
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> I hadn't seen that when I posted. And there's a report of
> Myth menu
> problems that could be related.
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> I haven't got my uk keyboard back yet, despite reverting to
> 180.29. But
> xorg.conf includes a keyboard layout modifier. kde 4.2
> allows a
> switch
> on login but that hasn't worked either, and neither has
> going to
> Gnome.
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> If you are using F10, the keyboard configuration is done
> automatically
> and the driver is evdev. I think it gets the layout from
> /etc/sysconfig/keyboard.
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> It is pointless to change xorg.conf for input devices,
> unless you use no add devices:
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> Section "ServerFlags"
> Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true"
> Option "AutoAddDevices" "false" <---------------
> EndSection
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> But I do not advice doing that, because you will have to
> configure all
> of the input devices, then.
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> Some people are loosing keyboard configuration
> after the last xorg update:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2009-February/msg02747.html
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>
> --
> Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
> LCG - UFRJ
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> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484488
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> Reverting to nvidia 180.29 didn't solve it.
>
> Reverting to xorg-x11-server-common 1.5.3-5.fc10 [at] x86-6 and
> xorg-x11-server-Xorg 1.5.3-5.fc10 [at] x86-6
> and *repeated* login in kde 4.2 with the required layout selected
> *has* given me back my uk keyboard - or, strictly, these changes
> were made and I now have a uk keyboard.
>
> I'll perhaps try 180.35 again when I can - although I don't have
> VDPAU hardware. Pity the two sets of updates came at the same time.
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>
> Looking at the change log section, there is:
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> * Fri Feb 06 2009 Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer [at] redhat
> <mailto:peter.hutterer [at] redhat>> 1.5.3-11
> - Update 10-x11-keymap.fdi: only call fedora-setup-keyboard for devices with
> input.capabilities = keyboard (#484217)
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> I bet if you just copy back the old 10-x11-keymap.fdi, it would have worked.
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> --
> Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
> LCG - UFRJ
For the record: I just re-upgraded xorg-x11-server-common and
xorg-x11-server-Xorg to versions 1.5.3-13.fc10 from Fedora-updates and
got the US keyboard again. Replacing the new version of
> /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-x11-keymap.fdi
by the old version, which contains just an unconditional
> fedora-setup-keyboard
does restore the UK keyboard for me, but didn't do it after a simple
logout: it needed a reboot. Perhaps /usr/bin/fedora-setup-keyboard
from the command line would have done the job.
John P
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