Evdev keyboard sends keycodes but no keysyms

[Simon Thum]

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?

-
Simon


On 11/15/10 06:34, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 8:19 PM, Peter Hutterer
> <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:
>> 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...
> 
> Running with -logverbose will give more details on the merging of
> InputClass settings.
> 
> --
> Dan
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