No "Alt Gr" Key in Suse 10.1
Hello, just a few days ago I upgraded my suse 9.0 system to opensuse 10.1. But now I have problems with my keyboard. My "Alt Gr" key doesn't work properly which is necessary for e.g. the "@" sign and others (I did this by copy & paste;-)) Even worse Yast2/Sax2 don't let me choose any options in the keyboard dialog. There is just nothing in the menus and I can't influence layout and stuff that way. In programs like thunderbird (which I'm using for this eMail at the moment) the "Alt Gr" key has the same function as the "Alt" key - e.g. "Alt + D" opens the file menu and so on, which it shouldn't do! On the other hand German "umlaute" like ä ö ü ß work without problems. I tried to configure the xorg.conf but nothing solved the problem. This is my actual one in parts: Section "InputDevice" Driver "kbd" Identifier "Keyboard[0]" Option "Protocol" "Standard" Option "XkbLayout" "de" Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Layout[all]" InputDevice "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer" Option "Clone" "off" Option "Xinerama" "off" Screen "Screen[0]" EndSection I ran "xev" on the console: KeyPress event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window 0x3e00001, root 0x44, subw 0x0, time 1619784, (509,297), root:(515,319), state 0x10, keycode 113 (keysym 0xffea, Alt_R), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False Is that the right keycode? Anything else wrong? Then I tried to insert keycodes using xmodmap (a Google result;-)) e.g.: xmodmap -e "keycode 113 = Mode_switch" But it didn't help and I'm not sure if that's the right way in xorg. By the way: "cat /var/log/XFree86* | grep keymap" and "cat /var/log/Xorg* | grep keymap" bring up the same result: (WW) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap (WW) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap Dont't know what that means:-( My feeling is, that upgrading suse 9.0 left some old config files or stuff on my computer and these are disturbing. Working with linux in textmodus everything works fine even the "Alt Gr" key. Well I think that's all I figured out for this problem and I hope someone out there has an idea what I'm searching for. Thanks for some hints in advance, Torsten.
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Torsten Preut