Keyboard problems

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 11 April 2008 12:18:33 Riku Seppälä wrote:
> 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

Yes.  It's still broken, as someone else said, even after the latest updates.

Anne
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