Bug#448152: closed by Sune Vuorela <debian@pusling.com> (Re: Bug#448152: kdebase: kxkb misinterprets extended scan codes)

[Mark Niven <mniven@trendline.co.il>]

Thanks for putting me in the right direction. I had searched for keyboard 
problem in kde, not imagining it would be a hal - xorg interaction.

In fact changing my keyboard type in kde to edev-managed is what did the 
trick.

Mark

On Friday 26 October 2007, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Please see
> #447731
>
> I am closing your bug as it doesn't contain any new information.
>
> /Sune
>
> On Friday 26 October 2007, Mark Niven wrote:
> > Package: kdebase
> > Version: 4:3.5.8.dfsg.1-1
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > On the latest upgrade - to 3.5.8 - kxkb seems to have been broken and
> > misinterprets extended key scan codes: the normal keys work but the
> > cursor etc keys to the right do not. For example, the up key is
> > interpreted as printscreen (which led to great confusion with kSnapshot
> > appearing all the time!) No problem in a standard text console or with
> > other window managers (twm); I eventially found that turning off
> > keyboard layouts and restarting the x-server did the trick, and
> > re-enabling breaks things again. However - I need multiple keyboard
> > layouts....