Hi, >>> after an upgrade to squeeze I have the problem that my keyboard is no >>> longer recognized by X (the mouse works). If I kill gdm/kdm from >>> another >>> machine via ssh, I get a console where the keyboard works. Xorg.0.log >>> does not show any errors (and the keyboard is mentioned there). >>> >>> It does not matter whether the keyboard is connected via USB or PS/2. >>> Removing my xorg.conf (to use the defaults/autodetection) does not >>> help >>> either. >>> >>> Any ideas how to debug the problem? > >> Upload "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" (if any) and "/etc/ >> defaults/keyboard" to www.pastebin.com > > /etc/X11/xorg.conf is empty (well, actually I want to add something > there, but that's not relevant for this bug, see below). > > /etc/default/keyboard contains > > XKBMODEL="pc105" > # XKBLAYOUT="us" > XKBLAYOUT="de" > XKBVARIANT="nodeadkeys" > XKBOPTIONS="" > > Xorg.0.log for "de" layout is at http://pastebin.com/1L0yTgEx and for > "us" layout at http://pastebin.com/XtjcCMiW. For "de" layout it works, > but not for "us" layout. > > The only problem is, I have a "us" layout keyboard! With the "de" > keyboard some keys are obviously wrong, but at least I am able to input > something at all.
I found the problem. A few years ago I had a "de" keyboard. When I switched to an "us" keyboard I changed the layout, but forgot about the "nodeadkeys" variant. X in lenny simply ignored the wrong variant. But X in squeeze silently fails. The model is wrong too (should be "pc104" for a "us" layout), but that does not seem to a problem. I'll leave a comment in bug 571636. Ironically, the "nodeadkeys" had exactly the opposite effect, it rendered *all* keys dead ;-) Joachim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4cf6b450.1030...@gmx.de
