<div dir="ltr">this fixed everything; thank you very much!! to anyone stumbling across this message trouble shooting similar issues: if you're also using xkbcomp, it makes stuff doubly confusing; i.e. if you're including pc(pc105) in a xkbcomp file, it'll screw up your arrow keys even after switching over to evdev in xorg.conf Thanks again, --TongKe <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 1:29 AM, Peter Hutterer <<a href="mailto:peter.hutterer@who-t.net">peter.hutterer@who-t.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 01:09:24AM -0700, tongke xue wrote: > This works _almost_ perfectly > here's what I havbe: > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Generic Keyboard" > Driver "evdev" > Option "Device" "/dev/input/by-id/usb-05f3_0007-event-kbd" > Option "XkbRules" "xorg" > Option "XkbModel" "pc105" > Option "XkbLayout" "us" > EndSection > my laptop's built in keyboard is ignored; only input from the kinesis > is taken into account > there's one slight problem -- my keyboard now ignore left/right/up/down > arrow keys and pageup/page down keys > i'm guessing i have the wrong XkbModel value of pc105? but i'm not sure > what to replace it with > i tried to find xkb files related to pc105, but 'locate pc105' brings > up nothing on my computer </div>XkbModel "evdev" shoudl fix this. Cheers, Peter </blockquote></div> </div>