Bug#433136: meta-kde: I see the same since this afternoon
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 05:30:53PM +0200, Jan Schumacher wrote:
> Package: meta-kde
> Followup-For: Bug #433136
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> since the last update and reboot I see apparently the same problem. If
> and only if I have keyboard layouts enabled, the keys are messed up in
> KDE. Disabling them does not negate the effect immediatly but after a
> new login, I get a correct layout, but of course not the one I would
> like (us in this case, which explains any wrong x's and y's :-) ).
>
> I haven't found any printable characters that were messed up, but the
> arrow keys are (left is iso 3rd level shift, up is print and the others
> are NoSymbol if I remember correctly), similarly keypad enter and keypad '/',
> right alt, which is keypad enter, home which is pause, etc.
>
> Gnome complains about aomething like an unexpected keyboard layout on start,
> saying it got evtdev + forgot and expected pc105 + de. After some fiddling
> (deleting xorg.conf, which also mandated de) it said it the otherway around,
> with de replaced by us. I can choose to stay with that or use the gnome
> settings. Either way gnome freezes and stops loading.
>
> In X's log I find the following lines:
>
> expected keysym, got XF86KbdLightOnOff: line 70 of pc
> expected keysym, got XF86KbdBrightnessDown: line 71 of pc
> expected keysym, got XF86KbdBrightnessUp: line 72 of pc
> expected keysym, got XF86KbdLightOnOff: line 70 of pc
> expected keysym, got XF86KbdBrightnessDown: line 71 of pc
> expected keysym, got XF86KbdBrightnessUp: line 72 of pc
>
> Maybe this is completely unrelated but it happened at the same time.
> Independent of the keyboard layout problem within KDE, I could not switch to a
> vt using Ctrl-Alt-Fx any more. This problem went away when I simply moved my
> xorg.conf out of the way, leaving me with a constant us layout, however.
>
> As another thing that should not make a difference (famous last words I
> suppose) is that I extended the de layout manually in
> /usr/share/.../symbol/de. I checked, that the keyboard layout problems are the
> same, even if I configure the keyboard switcher to use a different layout and
> delete de from its list.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
I think your problem is actually this one:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=447731
Ana
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