Dear Gentoo users,
I have installed the latest stable hal-0.5.11-r1 and hal-info-20080508
yesterday, and I give up: i cannot configure the keyboard layout as it
was previously in xorg.conf, and i cannot use the left-hand shift (the
latter is the annoying part). Here's what i have:
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb,fr,ru,ro"
Option "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle"
Option "XkbVariant" ",,winkeys,std"
EndSection
Trying
Driver "evdev"
would make X not start any more. I tried playing with
/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-keymap.fdi to no avail. It
seems to me that X uses evdev, no matter what I try. Also, I have only
en_US as layout and "left shift" launches xfce's help, although as a
shortcut key F1 is disabled here. I also disabled my .Xmodmap.
Can anyone suggest how to revert to my xorg.conf configuration, and to
make "left shift" a "proper" modifier key, again? Thank you,
Liviu
On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Daniel Pielmeier
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> This is the symptom I see when I try "evdev" driver and am using a MS
>> Natural Pro keyboard. Briefly the keyboard is handled as two USB
>> devices. The keys that work are on the first device, the ones that
>> don't on the second device. Following gentoo-wiki howtos it looks like
>> you have to hack the kernel. At that point I simply reverted to using
>> the "kbd" driver. Maybe some year evdev will mature...
>>
>> Quick check, look in your xorg.conf "ServerLayout" section, identify
>> which keyboard InputDevice, then check to see which driver it is using.
>>
