Bug#442479: XKB layout setting ignored with evdev keyboard driver

[Markus Schoder <lists@gammarayburst.de>]

On Sunday 16 September 2007, Mohammed Adnène Trojette wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 16, 2007, Markus Schoder wrote:
> > Package: xkb-data
> > Version: 1.0~cvs.20070914-1
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > The keyboard layout specified in xorg.conf (in my case de) with the
> > XkbLayout option is ignored. Instead I get what I think is the us
> > layout.
> >
> > I get the following error message in the Xorg log:
> > (WW) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap
> >
> > The problem as well as the message disappear if I either switch to
> > the old version of /usr/share/X11/xkb/keycodes/evdev or change the
> > minimum keycode setting back to 8 and remove the keycode mappings
> > below 8.
> >
> > Just changing the minimum back to 1 will trigger the problem again.
>
> Please could you try the following patch?
>
> Index: evdev
> ===================================================================
> --- evdev       2 Sep 2007 20:45:27 -0000       1.8
> +++ evdev       14 Sep 2007 22:12:48 -0000      1.9
> @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
>  // translation from evdev scancodes to something resembling xfree86
> keycodes.
>
>  default xkb_keycodes "evdev" {
> -       minimum = 1;
> +       minimum = 8;
>         maximum = 255;
>
>          # Added for pc105 compatibility
> @@ -279,12 +279,12 @@
>         <I253> = 253;   // #define KEY_DISPLAY_OFF         245
>
>         // Fake keycodes for virtual keys
> -       <MDSW> =   1;
> -       <LVL3> =   2;
> -       <ALT>  =   3;
> -       <META> =   4;
> -       <SUPR> =   5;
> -       <HYPR> =   6;
> +       <LVL3> =   92;
> +       <MDSW> =   203;
> +       <ALT>  =   204;
> +       <META> =   205;
> +       <SUPR> =   206;
> +       <HYPR> =   207;
>
>         indicator 1  = "Caps Lock";
>         indicator 2  = "Num Lock";

That fixes the problem.

--
Markus