Re: weird problem in X with recent sid packages

[charlie derr <cderr@simons-rock.edu>]

Florian Kulzer wrote:
> [...]
>
> Try to change the above section (and restart gdm):
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "Keyboard0"
>         Driver      "kbd"
>         Option      "CoreKeyboard"
>         Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
>         Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
>         Option "XkbLayout" "us"
> EndSection
>
> The "keyboard" driver has been superseded by "kdb" for a while; see the
> remarks in /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-input-kbd/NEWS.Debian.gz. The
> "xfree86" rules still exist as a legacy symlink, but it cannot hurt to
> update the XkbRules line to "xorg" when you are editing the
> configuration anyway.


Thanks for the quick reply.  Unfortunately the symptoms remain (only every other keystroke is registered in gdm).

> If the new configuration does not solve your problem then I would like
> to see the output of this command:
>
> dpkg -l xkb\* x11-\* xserver-xorg-input\* libx11\* | awk '/^i/{print $1,$2,$3}'

dibble:~# dpkg -l xkb\* x11-\* xserver-xorg-input\* libx11\* | awk '/^i/{print $1,$2,$3}'
ii libx11-6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-6
ii x11-apps 7.3+4
ii x11-common 1:7.3+18
ii x11-session-utils 7.3+1
ii x11-utils 7.4+1
ii x11-xfs-utils 7.4+1
ii x11-xkb-utils 7.4+2
ii x11-xserver-utils 7.3+5
ii xkb-data 1.5-2
ii xserver-xorg-input-all 1:7.3+18
ii xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.0.8-1
ii xserver-xorg-input-kbd 1:1.3.1-1
ii xserver-xorg-input-mouse 1:1.3.0-1
ii xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 0.14.7~git20070706-3
ii xserver-xorg-input-wacom 0.8.1.6-1

	thanks again for taking the time to look at this,
		~c