Evdev keyboard sends keycodes but no keysyms

Dan Nicholson dbn.lists at gmail.com
Tue Nov 16 15:05:37 PST 2010


On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Simon Thum <simon.thum at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> no dice so far. I get some additional lines:
>
> [ 16085.444] (II) config/udev: Adding input device AT Translated Set 2
> keyboard (/dev/input/event4)
> [ 16085.444] (**) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Applying InputClass
> "evdev keyboard catchall"
> [ 16085.444] (**) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Applying InputClass
> "keyboard-de"
> [ 16085.444] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so
> [ 16085.444] (**) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: always reports core events
> [ 16085.444] (**) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Device: "/dev/input/event4"
> [ 16085.448] (--) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Found keys
> [ 16085.448] (II) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Configuring as keyboard
> [ 16085.448] (**) Option "config_info"
> "udev:/sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input4/event4"
> [ 16085.448] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "AT Translated
> Set 2 keyboard" (type: KEYBOARD)
> [ 16085.448] (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
> [ 16085.448] (**) Option "xkb_model" "evdev"
> [ 16085.448] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "us"
> [ 16085.448] (**) Option "xkb_options" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
> [ 16085.448] (II) XKB: Reusing cached keymap
> [ 16085.448] (II) config/udev: Adding input device SynPS/2 Synaptics
> TouchPad (/dev/input/event7)
>
> I even added the option "xkb_layout", recompiled the whole stuff and so on.
>
> I'm using startx -- -logverbose, is that OK?

Hmm, yeah. You can try to up the level to -logverbose 10 or something
and get a ton of info.

--
Dan



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