Problems with keyboard using evdev

[Matija Šuklje]

Hullo,

my migrating to HAL saga has hit another rock — the keyboard.

I've switched my keyboard settings to HAL as well, because when I moved my 
mouse and touchpad to HAL and left the keyboard settings in 'xorg.conf', the 
keyboard really went crazy (e.g. repeated every key pressed three times).

What happens now is that some keybindings seem to work like they do in the 
console (instead of like they should in X). Examples:
* Ctrl+c kills X
* Ctrl+Backspace kills X
* "WinKey" goes a VT backwards (e.g. from tty7 to tty6)
* "MenuKey" goes a VT forwards (e.g. from tty7 to tty8)
* Ctrl+Fx goes to the VT 'x' (e.g. Ctrl+F1 goes to tty1, Ctrl+F12 goes to 
tty12)
* Alt+ArrowLeft goes a VT backwards
* Alt+ArrowRight goes a VT forwards

I'm pretty sure there's a simple solution that I'm unable to see. I'm just 
waiting for enlightenment and in the meantime cursing the 0's and 1's out of 
my laptop each time I forget myself and press Ctrl+c or Ctrl+Backspace to 
kill a program in the terminal emulator or try to delete a word.

I'm attaching the .fdi file I wrote — the (practical) problem persits no 
matter if I comment out any of its lines or not.

Here's the relevant 'hal-device' output:
--[start]--
43: udi 
= '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_i8042_i8042_KBD_port_logicaldev_input'
  info.addons.singleton = { 'hald-addon-input' } (string list)
  info.callouts.add = { 'hal-setup-keymap' } (string list)
  input.originating_device 
= '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_i8042_i8042_KBD_port'
(string)
  linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/class/input/input3/event3'  (string)
  info.subsystem = 'input'  (string)
  input.keymap.data = 
{ 'e025:help', 'e026:setup', 'e027:battery', 'e029:switchvideomode',
'e033:euro', 'e034:dollar', 'e055:wlan', 'e056:wlan', 'e057:bluetooth', 'e058:bluetooth', '
e071:f22', 'e072:f22', 'e073:prog2', 'e074:prog1' } (string list)
  info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_i8042_i8042_KBD_port'  
(string)
  info.product = 'AT Translated Set 2 keyboard'  (string)
  input.xkb.rules = 'xorg'  (string)
  info.category = 'input'  (string)
  info.udi 
= '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_i8042_i8042_KBD_port_logicaldev_input'
 (string)
  input.xkb.model = 'evdev'  (string)
  info.capabilities = 
{ 'input', 'input.keyboard', 'input.keypad', 'input.keys', 'input.key
map', 'button' } (string list)
  input.xkb.layout = 'si'  (string)
  linux.hotplug_type = 2  (0x2)  (int)
  input.xkb.variant = ''  (string)
  input.device = '/dev/input/event3'  (string)
  linux.subsystem = 'input'  (string)
  input.x11_driver = 'evdev'  (string)
  input.product = 'AT Translated Set 2 keyboard'  (string)
  linux.device_file = '/dev/input/event3'  (string)
  input.x11_options.XkbModel = 'pc105'  (string)
  input.x11_options.XkbRules = 'xorg'  (string)
  input.x11_options.XkbLayout = 'si'  (string)
--[stop]--


Cheers,
Matija
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<deviceinfo version="0.2">
	<device>
		<match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keyboard">
		<match key="info.product" contains="AT Translated Set 2 keyboard">
			<merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">evdev</merge>
			<merge key="input.x11_options.XkbModel" type="string">evdev</merge>
			<merge key="input.x11_options.XkbRules" type="string">xorg</merge>
			<merge key="input.x11_options.XkbLayout" type="string">si</merge>
			<merge key="input.x11_options.XkbModel" type="string">pc105</merge>
			<merge key="input.xkb.rules" type="string">xorg</merge>
			<merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">si</merge>
		</match>
		</match>
	</device>
</deviceinfo>
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