keyboard arrow keys not working...

[William Bulley]

According to Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> on Sun, 10/27/24 at 20:06:
> 
> paging in things from a long time ago: arrow keys mixup used to be
> an indication of xfree86 vs evdev XKB rules. I don't know enough about
> FreeBSD but might be that you're using the evdev ruleset with the
> old keyboard driver or the xfree86 ruleset with the evdev/libinput
> driver. You might find google results for this from around 2006-2009
> where this was a frequent-enough bug.

Thank you for the reply!  I'll forgive you for not knowing enough
about FreeBSD.  *grin*

I have been struggling looking up things along the lines of which
you speak above.  Not knowing the history is somewhat of a road
block, but I think you are onto something.

I have a friend with similar setup who ran the same setxkbmap(1)
that I attached to my email.  Instead of "base" for "rules" he
had "evdev" and his setup works fine (keyboard plus xorg/x11).

I have "libinput" in my "InputClass" sections of my xorg config
file in the /usr/local/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ directory.

It is unfortunate that this stuff is still in the mix and able
to let dummys like me stumble into a confusing situation.  :-(

Thanks again.  Have a great day!

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William Bulley
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