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Harald

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Since: Oct 20, 2007
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(Msg. 1) Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 9:36 am
Post subject: no arrow keys with evdev keyboard driver?
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Hi,

i am trying to run a 2 seat configuration on Fedora. Now i am facing a
stupid problem with my keyboards, the right Meta (AltGr) key is not
working as well as the arrow (cursor) keys.

What i did: The only way i found was to let the gdm start to X-Server,
each with different layout settings. Basically it works fine, but in
order to have two separate keyboards, i had to change the keyboard
driver in the xorg.conf from kbd to evdev.

How can i fix this?

I guess this is either something pretty stupid or so simple that no one
dared to explain on the web.

From my /etc/gmd/cust.conf:

[servers]
0=Standard0
1=Standard1

[server-Standard0]
name=Standard server
command=/usr/bin/Xorg -br -audit 0 -layout Seat0 -sharevts -novtswitch
flexible=true

[server-Standard1]
name=Standard server
command=/usr/bin/Xorg -br -audit 0 -layout Seat1 -sharevts -novtswitch
flexible=true

And the keyboard config from the xorg.conf (when activating driver kbd
and deactivating evdev all keys work fine):

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "evdev"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
# Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "de"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/event1"
EndSection

Thanks
Harald
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christoph.knoefel

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Since: Nov 01, 2007
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(Msg. 2) Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 4:17 am
Post subject: Re: no arrow keys with evdev keyboard driver? [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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I had the same problem. The solution (described by the link:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=161955):

Change the line

Option "XkbModel" "pc105"

to

Option "XkbModel" "evdev"


Good luck Smile
Christoph
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Harald

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 6:25 am
Post subject: Re: no arrow keys with evdev keyboard driver? [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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> Change the line
>
> Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
>
> to
>
> Option "XkbModel" "evdev"

Thanks Christoph,

changing the lines helped, at least for almost all keys. Only thing is
that the key on the very left on the lowest row (close to left Shift and
'Y' or 'Z') does not work at all.

On the german layout this is (bad luck) on the third level the pipe
symbol for the shell commands.

If someone has any hint, i appreciate hearing or reading it. Otherwise
it might be possible to use Xmodmap to enable this key again.

Regards
Harald
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Harald

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(Msg. 4) Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 10:57 am
Post subject: Re: no arrow keys with evdev keyboard driver? [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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Harald schrieb:
[...]
> it might be possible to use Xmodmap to enable this key again.

i used a self created xkb layout instead of Xmodmap. I was able to
define the missing key, now everything is working as expected

Regards
Harald
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