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Re: Alt-F7 fails



On Sun,24.May.09, 13:50:39, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
 
> 1-Deleted (well, renamed of course) /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Made sure
>   that the keyboard description in /etc/defaults/console-setup
>   was OK.
>   Result: X works, OK it seems, without xorg.conf, and Alt-F7
>   works also!
 
Great, problem solved.

> Should users now just simply ditch /etc/X11/xorg.conf? On the
> other hand it says  in the "Input Hotplug Guide":
> 
>   First and foremost is that the xorg.conf is still absolutely
>   necessary to set one's keymap when you're not using the default
>   'us' map.

Read again, that paragraph is in the 'Rationale' section.

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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