Bug#530585: Found the culprit

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 10:36:43 +0200, Josef Spillner wrote:

> reassign 530585 xkb-data
> severity serious
> thanks
> 
> After some more testing with various Xorg and framebuffer ways of killing the 
> bug, I've found a reference to #516028 which hints at xkb-data being the 
> culprit. Interestingly, there's no bug report filed against it yet.
> 
> I can confirm that downgrading to xkb-data 1.3 (from stable) fixes the issue of 
> wrong key press codes being sent. This bug also affects the version in testing 
> and thus makes both unstable and testing X11 unusable to me. Therefore I 
> consider this a serious bug and a serious violation of policy which demands 
> basic usability.
> 
> As a hint for people being faced with the same bug: When you use xkb-data 1.3 
> with Xorg 7.4, go to /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules and symlink base and base.lst to 
> evdev and evdev.lst, respectively, followed by "setxkbmap <langcode>" to get 
> more or less the desired behaviour back. It's not pretty but it's the only way 
> to use the system in such a situation.
> 
This doesn't make sense.  What version of libx11-6 do you have
installed?

Cheers,
Julien