Okay, I finally made some progress in figuring out why I couldn't type
in an X11 session started from either startx or xdm.
I decided to try entirely pulling the xorg.conf file and check the error
logs again. This time, I got keyboard input. Unfortunately, the keyboard
layout was wrong. Checking /var/log/Xorg.0.log, I found that the assumed
keyboard model was pc105.
After playing around with a minimal xorg.conf, I tried this:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
# From the sample:
Option "Protocol" "standard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
# Option "XkbModel" "macintosh"
# Option "XkbModel" "ibook"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "jp"
# end-sample
EndSection
This gives the same results as no xorg.conf, so I nosed around a bit
further and I find that there is no "jp" layout for either macintosh
or ibook models.
It looks I have some work to do, but if anyone could point me in the
direction to start looking for source to work from, I'd appreciate it.
(Probably won't be able to get started until next weekend, anyway.)
Joel Rees
