[SOLVED]xorg 1.9, keyboard layouts missing/conf file moved?

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KrossFIN · Post by **KrossFIN** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 11:35 am

So, I cant use AltGr, and keyboard layouts don\t work any more (only US)
Running xorg-server 1.9.0.901.
And xorg-x11 7.4-r1

/etc/make.conf

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# Welcome to /etc/make.conf!
# WARNING: DO NOT change your chost unless it is really required and you know what you're doing!
#
# [ System specific ]
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=k8"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=k8"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
USE="mmx sse sse2 3dnow multilib alsa bluetooth bzip2 cdda cddb cdr cups dri dvb dvd dvdr dbus encode emerald extras ffmpeg flac ftp gif gzip gtk gconf gnome gnome-keyring gnutls java jpeg javascript kvm lm-sensors lzma mysql matroska mpeg mp3 mp4 nsplugin nls ogg opengl png pulseaudio raw rss smp svg taglib tiff theora udev unicode vorbis x264 xvid X -minimal -debug -thunar -kde -hal -qt4"
LINGUAS="fi en"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64"

# [ Download settings ]
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.fi.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"

# [ Application specific ]
VIDEO_CARDS="radeon"
INPUT_DEVICES="evdev"

USE flags that I think are important, -hal udev.

I have done

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emerge -DuvaN world

and

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revdep-rebuild

Any ideas?

bbgermany · Post by **bbgermany** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 6:02 pm

Hi,

i had a similiar problem with my german keyboard. I recognized in the logfile of xorg, they use a special config dir. I found a config for a keyboard there but incomplete. So I added my german config there. Maybe this helps you a bit. Since im not in Linux Im not able to check for correct path.

bb

EDIT: I booted into my gentoo install and checked the conf dir: /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d

check this directory for an additional config for your keyboard

KrossFIN · Post by **KrossFIN** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 8:09 pm

Does your keymap conf file have a name_ (I hate when my keyboard doesn\type right)

/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ has only one file, 10-evdev.conf

By intensively looking at xorg log, I only noticed that it loaded us keymap(no dirs shown)

Gusar · Post by **Gusar** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 8:21 pm

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Input_dev ... figuration

Why doesn't Gentoo have a similar document yet? xorg-server-1.8 has been in the tree for quite some time now, there should be a document explaining the new post-hal method of configuring input devices.

KrossFIN · Post by **KrossFIN** » Thu Oct 14, 2010 3:35 pm

Gentoo don\t do documents on unstable stuff for some reason. (has caused some problems that I have to bloat this forum with)
Sadly that document didn\t help much.
/etc/X11/ doesn\t have a xorg.conf.d file. (nor did it have xorg.conf or anything like that..)

TequilaTR · Post by **TequilaTR** » Thu Oct 14, 2010 5:38 pm

Hi,

you do not search for that file, but for that directory.

in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf

I changed:

Section "InputClass"
Identifier "evdev keyboard catchall"
MatchIsKeyboard "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
+ Option "xkb_layout" "de"
EndSection

Hope that helps. However i also wonder if one could plug the thing to xorg.conf or equal... did not try yet.

Gusar · Post by **Gusar** » Thu Oct 14, 2010 5:48 pm

KrossFIN wrote:Gentoo don\t do documents on unstable stuff for some reason. (has caused some problems that I have to bloat this forum with)

Yeah, it seems that's a policy of Gentoo. But in certain cases (like this one) it brings problems.

KrossFIN wrote:/etc/X11/ doesn\t have a xorg.conf.d file. (nor did it have xorg.conf or anything like that..)

One of the first rules I learned when starting with Linux is this: If a configuration file a piece of documentation mentions doesn't exist, create it.
You can create /etc/X11/xorg.conf and write stuff in there. Or you create a random .conf file (or more of them) in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ dir. There you write an InputClass section with MatchIsKeyboard and settings in that section will apply to all keyboards.
Same for any other type of input device, you create a section, determine a match, and the settings will apply to everything that matches.

KrossFIN · Post by **KrossFIN** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 1:01 pm

I've noticed that it I'm not missing a conf file, it's GNOME that fails.
I changed to KDE and keyboard works perfectly.
For some odd reason GNOME implements it's own keyboard technology on top of xorg's. And it fails.
Yes, I do create conf files if one doesn't exist, but it's quite complicated file. (for me at least)
Solved, but still not solved..

Thank you for your help.

azp · Post by **azp** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 8:28 pm

I have the same issue, will try to add the extra evdev settings and see if it helps. I did think that Gnome would handle the keyboard layouts though, since that is where I do the settings (I run dvorak for me and qwerty for my girlfriend).

Mikkl · Post by **Mikkl** » Sat Oct 16, 2010 2:02 pm

me, too. and the keys in gnome-keyboard-properties -> Layouts -> Options (e.g. kill x-server by ctrl-alt-backspace or change layout) don't do anything, too. This has happened since the xorg-server-1.9.0.901 came up and now in .902, too. My xorg logfile doesn't show any differences between the working xorg-server-1.9.0-r2 and the not working xorg-server-1.9.0.90x except for these lines missing in 1.9.0.90x:

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 (II) Power Button: Close
 (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
 (II) Power Button: Close
 (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
 (II) Logitech Logitech USB Keyboard: Close
 (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
 (II) Logitech Logitech USB Keyboard: Close
 (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
 (II) Logitech USB Mouse: Close
 (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"

Mighty_Max · Post by **Mighty_Max** » Sun Oct 17, 2010 12:21 pm

I had the same issue in .901 and .902 xorg-servers, and I was messing around with it for about a day. As it seems the gnome-keyboard-properties doesn't do much for keyboard layouts. Altouth tweaking the /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf like TequilaTR said does the job:

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Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "evdev keyboard catchall"
        MatchIsKeyboard "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "evdev"
	Option "xkb_layout" "us,el" 
	Option "XkbOptions"   "grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll"

KrossFIN · Post by **KrossFIN** » Sun Oct 17, 2010 4:41 pm

Yep, it works. Thank you for your help.
EDIT: the file removes your settings when updating xorg!

Mikkl · Post by **Mikkl** » Tue Oct 19, 2010 3:21 pm

Ahh, thanks, it works for me, too, and an addition made my x-server zap work again:

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	Option "xkb_layout" "us, de"
	Option "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle, terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"

TequilaTR · Post by **TequilaTR** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 4:57 am

KrossFIN wrote:Yep, it works. Thank you for your help.
EDIT: the file removes your settings when updating xorg!

Hi,

indeed it is removed. However you can just simply copy the whole folder
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d to /etc/X11 and have the file
modified there. Then it should not get overwritten
on update. /usr/share/X11 files seem to be some sort of template for
the default configuration.

blutregens · Post by **blutregens** » Tue Oct 26, 2010 3:29 am

Any tips as to why the policy files on /etc/hal/fdi/policy are being ignored? I used to configure my keyboard with a fdi file and it doesn't work anymore. Changing the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf file worked, though.

My policy file:

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<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
   <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keyboard">[/quote]
      <merge key="input.x11_options.AutoRepeat" type="string">500 300</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.XkbRules" type="string">xorg</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.XkbModel" type="string">abnt2</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.XkbLayout" type="string">br</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.XkbOptions" type="string">terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp</merge>
   </match>
   </device>
</deviceinfo>

TequilaTR · Post by **TequilaTR** » Tue Oct 26, 2010 7:12 am

I think the idea is to discontinue hal. Evdev does not seem to use it anymore.

azp · Post by **azp** » Sat Nov 06, 2010 2:03 pm

TequilaTR wrote:I think the idea is to discontinue hal. Evdev does not seem to use it anymore.

Yep, everybody hates HAL =)

CodAv · Post by **CodAv** » Sun Nov 21, 2010 9:34 pm

Instead of editing files in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d, use the proper method, and create a folder /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d and place your edited files there. To switch to a german keyboard layout for example, put a file "10-keymap.conf" there with the following contents:

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Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "German Keyboard"
    MatchIsKeyboard "on"
    Option "XkbModel" "evdev"
    Option "XkbLayout" "de"
EndSection

After restarting XOrg, you should have your german layout working, and it doesn't get erased after the next XOrg upgrade.