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Telemin
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 Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 1:02 am Post subject: [Solved]Xorg appears to be ignoring my XkbLayout |
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Hi all,
I'm probably just doing something stupid here but when I set up my xorg.conf for the gentoo install on my new laptop i set the following for the keyboard which should have an english (british) layout:
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Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
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But I am getting given a US keymap in X so all of the symbols are mapped to the wrong keys. Could someone please point out where my (presumed) silly mistake is please?
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breakerfall
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| Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 1:26 am Post subject: |
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Looks ok to me... This was my config on my current setup (I'm just testing the new, tiny xorg config with auto detection + HAL), but this worked fine for me:
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Section "ServerLayout"
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InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
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EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
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dweezil-n0xad
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| Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 8:37 am Post subject: |
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xorg keyboard configuration has moved to hal
put this in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi
| Code: | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->
<match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keyboard">
<merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">keyboard</merge>
<merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">gb</merge>
<merge key="input.xkb.model" type="string">pc105</merge>
<merge key="input.xkb.rules" type="string">xorg</merge>
</match> |
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Telemin
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Thanks dweezil-n0xad but your code didn't work:(
I've just compiled xorg without hal for now and configured it the old fashioned way, but I would like to know how to get it sorted properly...
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breakerfall
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| Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 12:21 pm Post subject: |
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| freestyling wrote: | Thanks dweezil-n0xad but your code didn't work:(
I've just compiled xorg without hal for now and configured it the old fashioned way, but I would like to know how to get it sorted properly... |
Ah sorry, I didn't even think you were using a new enough version for the hal settings. The options given above are the old version. If they didn't work for you, try the following:
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keyboard">
<merge key="input.x11_options.XkbLayout" type="string">gb</merge>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>
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If this doesn't work, share the output of the following command please
hal-find-by-capability --capability input.keyboard
This command should return 1 line. |
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Telemin
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| Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 12:54 pm Post subject: |
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It does work now, I forgot to restart hald after editing though. 
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VoidMage
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| Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 1:00 pm Post subject: |
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And just what exactly would that line told you ?
It's the output of `hal-device <device name>` on the returned device,
that can tell you what you need to know.
But that fdi example looks correct.
@freestyling: did you restart hal after creating that file ?
Oops, typing took me too long. |
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