Evdev keyboard sends keycodes but no keysyms

[Peter Hutterer]

On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 02:11:25PM -0800, walt wrote:
> 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"

yeah, I noticed this as well. there's no nodeadkeys variant for us, which
would explain the NoSymbol issue. Now the real issue is why it doesn't take
your "de" setting...

Cheers,
  Peter