On Sun, Oct 27, 2024 at 08:33:22PM -0400, William Bulley wrote: > According to Peter Hutterer <peter.hutte...@who-t.net> on Sun, 10/27/24 at > 20:06: > > > > paging in things from a long time ago: arrow keys mixup used to be > > an indication of xfree86 vs evdev XKB rules. I don't know enough about > > FreeBSD but might be that you're using the evdev ruleset with the > > old keyboard driver or the xfree86 ruleset with the evdev/libinput > > driver. You might find google results for this from around 2006-2009 > > where this was a frequent-enough bug. > > Thank you for the reply! I'll forgive you for not knowing enough > about FreeBSD. *grin* > > I have been struggling looking up things along the lines of which > you speak above. Not knowing the history is somewhat of a road > block, but I think you are onto something. > > I have a friend with similar setup who ran the same setxkbmap(1) > that I attached to my email. Instead of "base" for "rules" he > had "evdev" and his setup works fine (keyboard plus xorg/x11). > > I have "libinput" in my "InputClass" sections of my xorg config > file in the /usr/local/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ directory. > > It is unfortunate that this stuff is still in the mix and able > to let dummys like me stumble into a confusing situation. :-(
make sure you don't have Option XkbRules set anywhere, it should default to "evdev" (unless FreeBSD builds with some other option). Otherwise try this: cat > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-override-xkb-rules <<EOF Section "InputClass" Identifier "force evdev rules" MatchIsKeyboard "on" Option "XkbRules" "evdev" EndSection EOF That should do the trick, the xorg.conf man page explains what the above does. Cheers, Peter
