Keyboardmapping with evdev

[Daniel Spannbauer]

Am 07/13/2012 08:03 AM, schrieb Peter Hutterer:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 10:05:37AM +0200, Daniel Spannbauer wrote:
>> Am 07/12/2012 08:33 AM, schrieb Daniel Spannbauer:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I try to get a german keyboard mapping on our own keyboard on a machine
>>> with opensuse 11.4 (Xorg 7.6) and fglrx 8.930.
>>>
>>> My conf seems to be ok...
>>>
>>> ---------------------------------
>>> Section "InputClass"
>>>         Identifier "evdev keyboard catchall"
>>>         MatchIsKeyboard "on"
>>>         MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
>>>         Driver "evdev"
>>> EndSection
>>>
>>>
>>> Section "InputClass"
>>>         Identifier "LocalKeyboard"
>>>         MatchIsKeyboard "on"
>>>         Option  "XkbLayout"     "de"
>>> EndSection
>>> -------------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>> According to the Xorg.0.log ( http://paste.opensuse.org/5436713 )the
>>> german keyboard mapping should be active...but it is not. The layout is
>>> still "us".
> 
> please don't attach logs as pastebins. your post is set to expire in 4
> weeks, after which it loses all information to future readers. so it may
> help you right now, but there's nothing left for posterity.
> 

hmmm, you are right, in the future I will post logs directly here...




>>> If I connect a USB-Keyboard at the same time the layout on that
>>> USB-Keyboard is german. After I press one key on that usb-keyboard our
>>> own keyboard is also german.....
>>>
>>> Can anybody help me to figure out the problem? At normal circumstances I
>>> can't connect an other keyboard.
>>
>>
>> Additional Info:
>>
>> If I do a "setxkbmap -query -verbose 10" I get the following:
>>
>> -----------------------------------------------
>> Setting verbose level to 10
>> locale is C
>> Applied rules from evdev:
>> rules:      evdev
>> model:      evdev
>> layout:     de
>> Trying to build keymap using the following components:
>> keycodes:   evdev+aliases(qwertz)
>> types:      complete
>> compat:     complete
>> symbols:    pc+de+inet(evdev)+terminate(ctrl_alt_bksp)
>> geometry:   pc(pc104)
>> rules:      evdev
>> model:      evdev
>> layout:     de
>> -----------------------------------------------
>>
>> But the Keyboard is still us/english. After a "setxkbmap de" the
>> Keyboard is german.
>>
>> Any ideas?
> 
> I suspect your desktop environment (GNOME? KDE?) overrides your choice of
> xorg.conf.

I don't think so.....if I don't start any desktop environment (simply a
xterm) I have the same result. Normaly, we use twm which don't has an
ability to change the keyboard settings.....

Also in kdm (login manager) my keyboard is wrong. The USB-Keyboard seems
to work correctly.

Regards

Daniel




>  
> Cheers,
>   Peter


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