Re: lost my 'c' key in X

[Johnny]

as suggested in an earlier thread[1]: `setxkbmap us` (or whatever variant
you're using -- for a good time, try `setxkbmap dvorak` ;)
         

heh. sorry for not having checked the archives. it was too surreal
for me to experience to even think that this may happen twice. also,
the machine in question is being really wicked lately.
anyway, my problem appears way before I even get an xterm. it's
already present in xdm. sucks if your login name contains one of the
broken characters...
nevertheless, I am using the us keymap, and XF86Config-4 is
correctly configured. I also see it in the logs:
(**) Option "XkbLayout" "us"
(**) XKB: layout: "us"
it's cool to have a workaround, but i think we need to fix the bug
at a deeper level. what the heck is going on?
and why 'c' and 'e'? sounds like a corruption of the keyboard map
files to me. or something like that...
       

A problem sounding suspiciously similar to this afflicts U.K. keyboard
users who had specified "uk" as their XkbLayout rather than "gb".
The XKB layout names are based on ISO 3166 country codes, which means that
the U.K. gets the odd "country" code of "gb" rather than "uk".
Does this information help any?
     

I have a slightly different error, but which is in the same vein.  All 
keys work unless I press Caps Lock, then all keys are shifted left.  So 
with Caps Lock on, if I type ls I get ;D.  I did not notice this 
straight away, as pressing shift does not have the same effect.  This 
problems occurs in all X programs I use, but not on the Virtual terminals.

A snipped from my XF86Config is as follows:
Section "InputDevice"
       Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
       Driver          "keyboard"
       Option          "CoreKeyboard"
       Option          "XkbRules"      "xfree86"
       Option          "XkbModel"      "pc105"
       Option          "XkbLayout"     "uk"
       Option          "XkbVariant"    "gb"
EndSection
I have this problem regardless of whether XkbLayout is set to "gb" or "uk".
I am using Debian unstable, the debian packages for nvidia and 
xfree-server 4.3.0-7.

Johnny
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