Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Jan Karjalainen [05-27-07 10:59]: {[...] (much trimmed)

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I logged out (as ctrl+alt+f1 won't work) and logged in to the console, and there the keyboard mapping works! After running "startx" and waiting for KDE to load, the keyboard mapping is gone.

Make a new user and login to X as the new user. See if your key mapping has returned.

If it is still missing, you quite possibly have bonkered xorg.conf and may need to run from a console as root in runlevel 3: sax2 -r -m 0=nv

warning: this is for an nvidia video card..... substitute [glx...] for nv in 0=nv above.

ps: It would not hurt for you to trim *most* of the previous quoting.

I did this (sax2 -r -m 0=nv) and the Keyboard Layout module in Sax2 shows nothing under the Type, Layout and Variant drop-down menus. Completely empty of any entries... -- Marjoe and Doshen were meditating in a field when Doshen just went and smacked Marjoe upside the head. "What the hell did you do that for?" asked Marjoe. "Nyuck nyuck nyuck," replied Doshen. At that moment, Marjoe ordered pizza.

Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* jrock@fmbv.nu [05-27-07 14:20]:

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Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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Make a new user and login to X as the new user. See if your key mapping has returned.

ps: It would not hurt for you to trim *most* of the previous quoting.

I did this (sax2 -r -m 0=nv) and the Keyboard Layout module in Sax2 shows nothing under the Type, Layout and Variant drop-down menus. Completely empty of any entries...

OK, you did part.... and noted that there are no (??) drop-down menu entries ????

Yes, absolutely no entries in the drop-down menus where you choose Type, Layout and Variant. Also the "Additional Layouts" section is empty. The same happens no matter which user (me, root or a newly created user) is logged in, in KDE/YaST or while running sax2 while "init 3". -- Real software engineers admire PASCAL for its discipline and Spartan purity, but they find it difficult to actually program in. They don't tell this to their friends, because they are afraid it means that they are somehow Unworthy.