Keyboard problems

[Andrew Farris]

Tony Molloy wrote:
> On Friday 11 April 2008 10:24:53 Anne Wilson wrote:
>> Rawhide insists that I use a US keyboard.  I'm forever hunting for the
>> whereabouts of non-alphanumeric keys and it's driving me mad.
>>
>> System-config-keyboard knows that I want a UK keyboard.  However, it
>> reports
>>
>> Loading /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/uk.map.gz
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/usr/share/system-config-keyboard/keyboard_gui.py", line 226, in
>> _okClicked
>>     return self.apply(None, False)
>>   File "/usr/share/system-config-keyboard/keyboard_gui.py", line 117, in
>> apply keyboardBackend.modifyXconfig(fullname, layout, model, variant,
>> options) File "/usr/share/system-config-keyboard/keyboard_backend.py", line
>> 34, in modifyXconfig
>>     keyboard = xf86config.getCoreKeyboard(xconfig)
>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/xf86config.py", line 177, in
>> getCoreKeyboard
>>     raise XF86SectionMissing("No CoreKeyboard InputDevice found in the
>> layout")
>> xf86config.XF86SectionMissing
>>
>> I tried putting in a keyboard section, but Xorg.conf seems to be
>> dynamically produced these days, so re-starting X just puts me back with
>> the default US keyboard.  Is there nothing that can be done about this?
>>
>> Anne
> 
> Adding the following to xorg.conf works for me!!!
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "Keyboard0"
>         Driver      "kbd"
>         Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
>         Option      "XkbLayout" "gb"
> EndSection

The s-c-k bug is reported here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=439640

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