Keyboard problems

[Riku Seppälä]

Andrew Farris wrote:
> 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
>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=437290