Xorg 7.3 broke keyboard

[Hetfield666]

i cannot have anymor ethe italian layout working properly:
(WW) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap
(**) Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
(**) Mouse1: Device: "/dev/input/mice"
(**) Mouse1: Protocol: "IMPS/2"
(**) Option "CorePointer"
(**) Mouse1: always reports core events
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
(**) Option "Emulate3Buttons"
(**) Mouse1: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50
(**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
(**) Mouse1: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4, 5, 6 and 7
(**) Mouse1: Buttons: 11
(**) Mouse1: Sensitivity: 1
(**) Option "CoreKeyboard"
(**) Keyboard1: always reports core events
(**) Option "Protocol" "standard"
(**) Keyboard1: Protocol: standard
(**) Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
(**) Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
(**) Keyboard1: XkbRules: "xorg"
(**) Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
(**) Keyboard1: XkbModel: "pc105"
(**) Option "XkbLayout" "it"
(**) Keyboard1: XkbLayout: "it"
(**) Option "CustomKeycodes" "off"
(**) Keyboard1: CustomKeycodes disabled
(II) evaluating device (Keyboard1)
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Keyboard1" (type: KEYBOARD)
(II) evaluating device (Mouse1)
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse1" (type: MOUSE)
(WW) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap
(II) Mouse1: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/OTF, removing from list!

mouse works ok, keyboard has the italian layout but not symbols...

what's up? the driver is correctly loaded and i recompiled again....

[bredde]

Same there.
I've updated my desktop-computer and my laptop from xorg-server-1.4-r1 to -1.4-r2. On both computers I get exactly the same log-output as the first poster.
I've got a german keyboard layout, re-emerged the xorg keyboard driver and ran revdep-rebuild.

Here's the xorg.conf:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Notebook Tastatur"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "de"
Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
EndSection

[Hetfield666]

following some suggestions here
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-588884.html

it got solved.

to be sincere i don't know why and how...

[bredde]

for me, a simple reemerge of xorg-server did magical things..
however, it's working again

[Hwoarang]

Rebuilt xkbcomp, xkeyboard-config, xorg-server, xf86-input-evdev in that order

[Hetfield666]

i confirm it's working.

actually that's a new xorg-server-1.4-r2 revision that should address this...

i only have the keyboard leds issue now...but that's UPSTREAM for 1.4.1

[Hwoarang]

Leds problems hasnt been fixed on xorg-server 1.4-r2.

[Hetfield666]

this is what i wrote:
fixes layout and keys not working, do not fix leds.

the difference is that the first was a gentoo upgrade issue, the other is a bug in the code.

gentoo fixed what it could, xorg must fix the led and the plan to release this in 1.4.1 (patch seems already in the git archive).
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[pcfreak85]

Hi,

during the try to get all keys working again, i received this error on install / rebuild xorg-server:

[Hwoarang]

Its seems to me that there is a problem with the current ebuild. Try a emerge --sync and retry

[pcfreak85]

Hi Hwoarang,

To be sure i'll get a new ebuild i deleted the old one from /usr/portage but still the same error. It seems that exact the same error occurs on rebuilding the r1 xorg or installing the r2 ebuild. So it has to be a general issue on my system i suppose.
There are several such errors before this one. Here some more examples:

[pcfreak85]

Yeah, now i was able to re-emerge xorg-server.
I read every detail of the above posted errors and saw something like "Xext", then "emerge -s Xext" gave the following output:

[pietrek]

That LEDs problem can be fixed with this patch:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2007-September/028559.html
It's considered a bit hackish and dirty, but it works!