Keyboard problem after latest updates

Antonio M antonio.montagnani at gmail.com
Sat Feb 23 16:04:33 UTC 2008


2008/2/23, Antonio M <antonio.montagnani at gmail.com>:
> 2008/2/23, Michal Jaegermann <michal at harddata.com>:
>
> > On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 03:30:44PM +0100, Antonio M wrote:
>  >  >
>  >  > tnx Kevin,
>  >  >
>  >  > I think that this is a (good) workaround, but system should not
>  >  > destroy my settings and developer should take care of it (and possibly
>  >  > to restore it)
>  >
>  >
>  > This is a "Pearl of Wisdom" which recently David Zeuthen deigned to
>  >  bestow on me in a response to a report which turned out to be
>  >  settings/interface breakage; with a very non-obvious (ok, for me)
>  >  and hard to find replacement, I may add.
>  >
>  >  "Sorry, but this is Fedora; there is no expectation of settings
>  >  being preserved from one version to another".
>  >
>  >  I think that this is obviously wrong but some do have this attitude
>  >  and is apparently very hard to do something about it.
>  >
>  >  Moreover in this particular case for a person who did that breakage,
>  >  and was aware what is going on, it was a simple matter of adding
>  >  some package scripts with gconftool-2 which would read old settings
>  >  and write corresponding new ones as needed (very far from obvious
>  >  what new ones may be and no idea what were reasons behind the
>  >  change) to avoid the problem.  Yes, you would have to walk through
>  >  all user accounts on a machine.  This is a nature of the beast.  As
>  >  things stand expect much more "fun" of that sort after realease as
>  >  the report was closed with a blatantly false "NOTABUG".
>  >
>  >    Michal
>  >
>  >
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>
> only one word: I was not switching from a version to another, but
>  applied some updates.
>
>  Unfortunately I am working on an Italian keyboard :-( ....
>  And as workaround from Kevin doesn't work on my system, I am waiting
>  for hints from developers.This is not "NOTABUG"!!!!!
>
> --
>  Antonio Montagnani
>  Skype : antoniomontag
>
and this in my configuration file with the non-working keyboard..
# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "single head configuration"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
	Option	    "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
	Option	    "XkbModel" "pc105"
	Option	    "XkbLayout" "it"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Videocard0"
	Driver      "nv"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Videocard0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
		Modes    "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480"
"640x400" "640x350"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
	Option	    "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection


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Antonio Montagnani
Skype : antoniomontag




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