> > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 06:46:49PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> >> Could you please describe your problem? I don't know what third-level
> >> characters are, and my crystal ball is at the repair shop.
> >
> > Sorry for using inappropriate terminology. I would expect AltGr to
> > produce what perhaps is denoted iso-level3-shift or possibly key-3
> > internally in emacs, anyway, what you use, e.g. on a German keyboard
> > to produce symbols like @{} etc. The latter symbols are what I tried
> > to describe as third-level characters. Instead AltGr produces the
> > hyper or super modifiers in emacs (running under X -- not otherwise)
> > and tells me that h-7 or s-7 are undefined when I try to write {.
>
> I cannot reproduce this with my German keyboard layout, where { is on
> AltGr-7 as well. Does the AltGr key work correctly in other applications?
>
AltGr works as it should in other applications (and in emacs in
console mode). Note that the problem only appeared after migrating to
the testing version of kernel and Xorg.
> Please send your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /etc/default/keyboard, if these
> files exist.
>
> Sven
/etc/default/keyboard:
# If you change any of the following variables and HAL and X are
# configured to use this file, then the changes will become visible to
# X only if HAL is restarted. In Debian you need to run
# /etc/init.d/hal restart
# The following variables describe your keyboard and can have the same
# values as the XkbModel, XkbLayout, XkbVariant and XkbOptions options
# in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="de"
XKBVARIANT="nodeadkeys"
XKBOPTIONS=""
# If you don't want to use the XKB layout on the console, you can
# specify an alternative keymap. Make sure it will be accessible
# before /usr is mounted.
# KMAP=/etc/console-setup/defkeymap.kmap.gz
/etc/X11/xorg.conf:
# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "de"
Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Emulate 2 buttons"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
EndSection
/Björn
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