Bug#481262: xorg: does not read control keys or numlock or capslock keys with nvidia driver
Package: xorg
Version: 1:7.3+10
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
This happened right after I upgraded to the xorg version in the latest system update.
unsatisfactory workaround - switching to the vesa driver.
the subject is adequately descriptive - except that the SHIFT KEY also fails.. If I didn't
have VMware Server running with a Windows VM so I could enter my root password with an upper
case letter in it and hadn't had a copy of Kwrite with desktop icon set to open as root, I
wouldn't have been able to get into xorg.conf in order to change the driver setting to vesa.
In my opinion, an inexperienced user would not only be unable to get into root, but very
possibly wouldn't even be able to file a bug report.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable'), (150, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages xorg depends on:
ii gnome-terminal [x-t 2.22.1-1 The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii konsole [x-terminal 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-2+b1 X terminal emulator for KDE
ii libgl1-mesa-glx [li 7.0.3-1 A free implementation of the OpenG
ii libglu1-mesa 7.0.3-1 The OpenGL utility library (GLU)
ii x11-apps 7.3+1 X applications
ii x11-session-utils 7.3+1 X session utilities
ii x11-utils 7.3+1 X11 utilities
ii x11-xfs-utils 7.3+1 X font server utilities
ii x11-xkb-utils 7.3+1 X11 XKB utilities
ii x11-xserver-utils 7.3+2 X server utilities
ii xauth 1:1.0.3-1 X authentication utility
ii xfonts-100dpi 1:1.0.0-4 100 dpi fonts for X
ii xfonts-75dpi 1:1.0.0-4 75 dpi fonts for X
ii xfonts-base 1:1.0.0-5 standard fonts for X
ii xfonts-scalable 1:1.0.0-6 scalable fonts for X
ii xfonts-utils 1:1.0.1-2 X Window System font utility progr
ii xinit 1.0.8-1 X server initialisation tool
ii xkb-data 1.2~cvs.20080501.1-1 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii xserver-xorg 1:7.3+10 the X.Org X server
ii xterm [x-terminal-e 235-1 X terminal emulator
Versions of packages xorg recommends:
ii xorg-docs 1:1.4-2 Miscellaneous documentation for th
-- no debconf information
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