Re: [SLE] 9.3: Keyboard keymaps and xorg

15 Jun 2005

      ken (gebser@speakeasy.net) wrote something I wish to comment :
(news:<42AF6BC8.4090107@speakeasy.net> posted on 15-juin-05  00:44:08)
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My keyboard problem is still not fixed.  I received some feedback
from the Suse support team, but with no help so far.
I haven't been able to re-install the xorg package (or install a new
one which may contain the bug fix I'm hunting ?).  Any help welcome.
Can someone who is using the Suse 9.3 distribution with a working
AZERTY keyboard (preferably a Belgium layout, but other may help too)
send me his /etc/X11/xorg.conf file for me to compare ?
In your /etc/X11/xorg.conf find the:
Section "InputDevice"
...
EndSection
that describes your keyboard.
Somewhere inside of that (I don't think it matters where), insert
Option    "XkbLayout"    "be-latin1"
Sounded good to me.  That line was

 Option  "XkbLayout"  "be"

and I change it to:

 Option  "XkbLayout"  "be-latin1"

then reboot the computer...  No change  :-(

I did perform the same change to /etc/X11/xorg.conf-Linux1 (where
"Linux1" is the name of my machine) and reboot.  No change either.

In another reply on this list, Carlos E. R. suggested that the
keyboard problem might be due to a bug in KDE (someone else on the
Spanish list reporteing about the same problem).
Indeed, when I switch back to runlevel 3 ("init 3" from a console)
and test the keyboard from the console, it is working fine (I can
print the missing e acute and aroba).

So maybe my keyboard problem IS due to a bug in KDE (?), and not to
a misconfiguration of xorg as I thought.

Still searching...

Thanks for your help.

AmigaPhil, world citizen.  /No MS-HTML mail please/  PGP key: 0x9C07F6C1

Re: [SLE] 9.3: Keyboard keymaps and xorg

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