Help! Wrong keyboard layout! But found helping command!

[PaddyW]

Hello there,
I can't change my keyboard layout via xorg.conf:

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Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier              "Default Keyboard"
        Driver                  "kbd"
        Option                  "CoreKeyboard"
        Option                  "XkbLayout" "de"
        Option                  "XkbModel" "pc105"
EndSection

I looked up the board and found that a few people have that problem. Sounds like a problem with evdev/hal. The thing is, that i can change the layout via:

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setxkbmap de

Is there any way to make this command available at the kde login? /etc/conf.d/local.start doesn't work!

[Elbar Thera]

I am not sure but you could try to add that command to /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc or create your own file in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/

Maybe it helps,
Elbar

PS: I'm using : setxkbmap -model evdev -layout de -variant nodeadkeys

[DaggyStyle]

which version of xorg? does it complied against hal?

[PaddyW]

xorg-server is at 1.5.3
and xorg-x11 at 7.4

first, it did compile against hal but when i removed the hal-USE-flag, compiled xorg-server and hal and switch the hal-USE-flag back on to compile all again, it went fine.

[jaydoc]

Hi...

I have a similar problem.

When I tried to emerge xorg there were some circular dependency issues because of the use of the HAL flag. So I edited package.use to exclude HAL use flag for xorg server, and the emerge seemed to go fine. I then emerged XFCE, and slim.

I have an Acer 5920 laptop.
The trouble is - at the login screen, numlock goes on by itself, and when i type in jaydoc, i get 1ayd6c..! I have tried to disable numlock by pressing on the F11 button which is the numlock button. But it doesn't work at login.

When I kill the graphical login with ctrl alt bcksp and get to console based login, the numlock powers off, and the keyboard works just fine.

what could be the issue..?