Albert Hopkins schrieb: > I'm going to guess that the keyboard driver or something is interfering > with the evdev driver? Or you don't have proper evdev support in the > kernel? Or is your xorg.conf telling X to use a different driver? > > I don't have access to a Gentoo machine right now, but when I look at a > similar machine (same exact keyboard though). I get this: > > $ egrep -i '(key|evdev)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log > (II) Cannot locate a core keyboard device. > (==) intel(0): video overlay key set to 0x101fe > (II) Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD > (II) LoadModule: "evdev" > (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input//evdev_drv.so > (II) Module evdev: vendor="X.Org Foundation" > (II) ThinkPad Extra Buttons: Found keys > (II) ThinkPad Extra Buttons: Configuring as keyboard > (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "ThinkPad Extra > Buttons" (type: KEYBOARD) > (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev" > (**) Option "xkb_model" "evdev" > (II) Microsft Microsoft Wireless Desktop Receiver 3.1: Found keys > (II) Microsft Microsoft Wireless Desktop Receiver 3.1: Configuring as > keyboard > (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Microsft Microsoft Wireless > Desktop Receiver 3.1" (type: KEYBOARD) > (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev" > (II) config/hal: Adding input device AT Translated Set 2 keyboard > (**) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: always reports core events > (**) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Device: "/dev/input/event4" > (II) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Found keys > (II) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Configuring as keyboard > (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "AT Translated Set 2 > keyboard" (type: KEYBOARD) > (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev" > (II) Microsft Microsoft Wireless Desktop Receiver 3.1: Found keys > (II) Microsft Microsoft Wireless Desktop Receiver 3.1: Configuring as > keyboard > (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Microsft Microsoft Wireless > Desktop Receiver 3.1" (type: KEYBOARD) > (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev" > (II) Sleep Button: Found keys > (II) Sleep Button: Configuring as keyboard > (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Sleep Button" (type: > KEYBOARD) > (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev" > (**) Option "xkb_model" "evdev" > (II) Video Bus: Found keys > (II) Video Bus: Configuring as keyboard > (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Video Bus" (type: KEYBOARD) > (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev" > (**) Option "xkb_model" "evdev" > (II) Power Button: Found keys > (II) Power Button: Configuring as keyboard > (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Power Button" (type: > KEYBOARD) > (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev" > (**) Option "xkb_model" "evdev" > > Not that it is XINPUT that is driving my keyboard, not Keyboard1. So > I'm guessing it's the X config.
Might be. Do you have any keyboard section in xorg.conf? I assume I could get rid of xorg.conf at all but whenever I tried that my X11 didn't start up anymore ... > Then again, it might be gpm. Are you using gpm? Maybe it's grabbing > the keyboard and not letting X have it. No gpm running. Stefan
