Evdev keyboard sends keycodes but no keysyms

[walt]

On 11/14/2010 09:11 AM, Simon Thum wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> yesterday I recompiled xorg, updating from a ca. 3 week old install
> using gentoo's live ebuilds. I went into an amusing bug which I narrowed
> down a bit.
>
> I'm having the following xorg.conf.d fragment:
>
> Section "InputClass"
>          Identifier "keyboard-de"
>          MatchIsKeyboard "on"
>          Option "XKBOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
>          #Option "XKBVariant" "nodeadkeys"
>          Option "XKBLayout" "de"
> EndSection
>
> Funny enough, invoking
>
>> setxkbmap -rules evdev -layout de -variant nodeadkeys
>
> brings back my keyboard as intended!

I notice that your Xorg log says

[  4702.616] (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
[  4702.616] (**) Option "xkb_model" "evdev"
[  4702.616] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "us"   <================ ???
[  4702.616] (**) Option "xkb_variant" "nodeadkeys"
[  4702.616] (**) Option "xkb_options" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"

Grepping the xorg.conf manpage for InputClass turns up nothing on
my xorg-1.7.7 machine.  Maybe that's something new?