Re: Upgrading to KDE4 and Cherry Cymotion Linux keyboard

[Valerio Passini <valerio.passini@unicam.it>]

Alle Monday 13 April 2009, Charles de Miramon ha scritto:
> Hello,
>
> I have upgraded my Debian sid box to KDE4. Thank you for the packaging work
> !
>
> I have a USB Cherry Cymotion Linux keyboard and upgrading to KDE4 (and maybe
> to the latest xorg) broke the keyboard mapping. For example, the 'Down' key
> is remapped to XF86Terminal.
>
> The only way to restore a correct behaviour is to run on the command line :
> setxkbmap -model cymotionlinux -layout fr
>
> But the wrong keyboard layout comes back when I restart KDE
>
> I have tried to change the keyboard layout in settings->Regional Settings
> without success.
>
> The problem is specific to KDE because the keyboard layout is fine when I
> start another WM
>
> I have tried to grep the .kde directory to find a problematic configuration
> file but without sucess.
>
> I'm wondering if it is a problem of configuration files or a KDE4 bug ?
>
> My xorg.conf keyboard section is :
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
> Driver "kbd"
> Option "CoreKeyboard"
> Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
> Option "XkbModel" "cymotionlinux"
> Option "XkbLayout" "fr"
> Option "XkbVariant" "latin9"
> EndSection
>
> Cheers,
> Charles
>
>
> --
> http://www.kde-france.org
>

IMHO this is not KDE's fault, but X: probably you will notice that in terminal the console is working properly. In the last X version keyboard and mouse are managed differently (by evdev driver) and If this is your problem, you should remove every line related to mouse and keyboard from /etc/X11/xorg.conf and after configure console through: dpkg-reconfigure console-data.
If you really need a different setup (evdev is not able to catch all the possible multimedia keys) you should tweak your xorg.conf to let X use the old drive.
Bye

Valerio