On Wednesday 29 December 2010 09:26:57 Konstantinos Agouros wrote: > In <20101227175826.1bbaf...@karnak.local> dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) writes: > >--Sig_/Hxy_r1egAtvobeT/s7/L0.O > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > > >On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 12:20:02 +0100, John wrote about [gentoo-user] > > > >xorg-server: > >>I have just upgraded to xorg-server 1.9.2 > >>but unfortunately my keyboard is not recognising gb layout > > > >You have at least 2 courses of action: > > > >1) Add a udev rule in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules > > > ># A rule to define our keyboard layout. > >KERNEL=3D=3D"event*", ENV{ID_INPUT_KEYBOARD}=3D=3D"?*", > >ENV{xkblayout}=3D"g= b", > >ENV{xkbmodel}=3D"pc105" > > > >2) Add a configuration file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf > > > ># Configuration for evdev-controlled input devices. > >Section "InputClass" > > > > Identifier "keyboard" > > Driver "evdev" > > Option "XkbLayout" "gb" > > Option "XkbModel" "pc105" > > Option "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" > > You got this working with xorg-server 1.9? This is the one piece that's > not working for me.
Other than setting up udev rules I have tried everything that I could think of. Based on the experiments I ran on two laptops I have come to the following conclusions (or should this be "confusions"? ha, ha): Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off" is necessary under Section "ServerLayout" to allow legacy kbd and mouse drivers to load. Setting up a /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf and then moving to 55- evdev.conf so that the 50-synaptics.conf is read first does not work. Somehow evdev permeates everything, creates multiple devices and hijacks the touchpad, keyboard, etc. Commenting out the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf lines for keyboard and touchpad also does not do the trick, because there is still the /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf which seems to be parsed regardless of a /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf file being available. So, I removed /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf, commented out the keyboard and touchpad entries in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf and can now use my touchpad with horizontal/vertical scroll functions, acceleration, etc. based on settings I added in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50- as well as a multi-language keyboard. Personally, I can't see why all these additional config files and locations are required, rather than a single /etc/X11/xorg.conf. I have found all these back and forth changes to fdi's, xorg.conf.d and what have you, unnecessary and annoyingly time wasting. Of course I might have missed something simple in all this kerfuffle, so please chime in if there is a better way around this. -- Regards, Mick
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