On Sunday 16 September 2007, Mohammed Adnène Trojette wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 16, 2007, Markus Schoder wrote:
> > Package: xkb-data
> > Version: 1.0~cvs.20070914-1
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > The keyboard layout specified in xorg.conf (in my case de) with the
> > XkbLayout option is ignored. Instead I get what I think is the us
> > layout.
> >
> > I get the following error message in the Xorg log:
> > (WW) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap
> >
> > The problem as well as the message disappear if I either switch to
> > the old version of /usr/share/X11/xkb/keycodes/evdev or change the
> > minimum keycode setting back to 8 and remove the keycode mappings
> > below 8.
> >
> > Just changing the minimum back to 1 will trigger the problem again.
>
> Please could you try the following patch?
>
> Index: evdev
> ===================================================================
> --- evdev 2 Sep 2007 20:45:27 -0000 1.8
> +++ evdev 14 Sep 2007 22:12:48 -0000 1.9
> @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
> // translation from evdev scancodes to something resembling xfree86
> keycodes.
>
> default xkb_keycodes "evdev" {
> - minimum = 1;
> + minimum = 8;
> maximum = 255;
>
> # Added for pc105 compatibility
> @@ -279,12 +279,12 @@
> <I253> = 253; // #define KEY_DISPLAY_OFF 245
>
> // Fake keycodes for virtual keys
> - <MDSW> = 1;
> - <LVL3> = 2;
> - <ALT> = 3;
> - <META> = 4;
> - <SUPR> = 5;
> - <HYPR> = 6;
> + <LVL3> = 92;
> + <MDSW> = 203;
> + <ALT> = 204;
> + <META> = 205;
> + <SUPR> = 206;
> + <HYPR> = 207;
>
> indicator 1 = "Caps Lock";
> indicator 2 = "Num Lock";
That fixes the problem.
--
Markus
