Dne, 29. 09. 2009 16:38:40 je Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. napisal(a): > What version of Debian are you running? If you are as "noob" as you > say, you > should be running Lenny. Until you are more comfortable with > administering a > Debian machine, running anything else is asking for trouble. > -- > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. > b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) > ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' > http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/ >
Of course I'm running Lenny. On both my computers. Anyway, I thought maybe somebody with similar issues might be interested in my adventures: the wrong keymap turned out not to be libxi6-related after all. In fact, the libxi6 bug, dating from Feb-Mar 2009, had already been taken care of in Lenny, which comes with a newer libxi6 version. Just to cover all the bases, I nevertheless installed an older version of the libxi6 library from the debian snapshots. Which of course didn't solve anything. Now, while debugging the mess, copying .gconf directories across accounts, creating test accounts etc., I discovered that the issue only appeared on my kids' accounts. Now, I've configured those with zero- length passwords in order to let them log into Gnome easily. Yes, oddly enough, *only GDM and the passwordless Gnome accounts* had the wrong keymap settings! Even if I changed their Gnome keymap settings, they would not retain them across logins, but would regularly revert to the US keymap upon logging out. Now, nothing of the kind happened with my main account which has a regular password. To make a long story short, it turned out that a single missing line in xorg.conf (written by the proprietary nvidia driver package) was the culprit. When I added Option "XkbLayout" "si" to xorg.conf, things finally got humming, just like Debian stable is supposed to. What's curious, though, is the fact that this missing line exclusively affected GDM and the passwordless accounts in Gnome! Luckily, I'm running the exact same OS on my laptop, so it wasn't that difficult to figure out what was wrong just by comparing config files on both systems. Last but not least, a big thanx to Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. and Johan Kullstam for their invaluable advice! -- Certifiable Loonix User 481801 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
