Bug#483725: xserver-xorg-input-kbd: volume keys and altgr-combinations stopped working after upgrade

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Mihnea-Costin Grigore wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-input-kbd
> Version: 1:1.3.1-1
> Severity: normal
>
>
> After the latest upgrade to version 1.3.1 of this package, suddenly the volume buttons (up, down, mute) on my keyboard stopped working.
> Also, the AltGr-<letter> combinations used for language-specific diacritics don't work either.
> Everything used to work perfectly with the previous version (1.2.2)...
>
> Below is the keyboard setting section from my xorg.conf
> =====
> Section "InputDevice"
>   Identifier  "Keyboard1"
>   Driver      "kbd"
>   Option      "AutoRepeat"    "250 30"
>   Option      "xkb_rules"       "xorg"
>   Option      "xkb_layout"    "ro"
>   Option      "xkb_variant" "comma"           # basic/comma
> EndSection
> =====
>
> Nothin else changed on my system, except maybe the latest nvidia drivers I installed yesterday, but I don't think they have something to do with this...
>   

Can you actually check that downgrading to 1.2.2 (it's in testing)
solves the problem?

Brice