keyboard arrow keys not working...

[Alan Grimes]

Yeah, it's a clusterpluck, I ran into this about six months ago myself. 
This is my xorg.conf, for dvorak layout:

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
#    Driver         "keyboard"
     Identifier     "Keyboard0"
     Driver         "libinput"
     Option         "xkbmodel" "evdev"
     Option         "XkbLayout" "us"
     Option         "XkbVariant" "dvorak"
     Option         "xkbrules" "evdev"
EndSection

I don't even know how my drivers work, I think my distro had stupidly 
removed libinput or some nonsense like that. It started working again 
when I put libinput back in.

Anyway, I forgot about most of it already and have no intention of 
touching it again during my natural lifespan.


William Bulley wrote:
> 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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