Bug#542189: xserver-xorg-input-evdev: Broken Keyboard: (EE) USB-compliant keyboard: failed to initialize for relative axes.

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 18:48:11 +0800, Bug Filler wrote:

> Package: xserver-xorg-input-evdev
> Version: 1:2.2.4-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> After upgraded to 1:2.2.4-1, my keyboard is semi-broken. Normal keys
> work well but the Funtion keys and some multimedia keys didn't.
> 
Does 2.2.5 fix that?

> The X.log error seem to inidcate applying mouse initialization to keyboard.
> 
>  (EE) USB-compliant keyboard: failed to initialize for relative axes.
> 
> e.g. the F2 became:
> 
> KeyPress event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x1e00001,
>     root 0x11c, subw 0x0, time 377125, (172,-7), root:(1121,15),
>     state 0x0, keycode 37 (keysym 0xffe3, Control_L), same_screen YES,
>     XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
>     XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
>     XFilterEvent returns: False
> 
> KeyPress event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x1e00001,
>     root 0x11c, subw 0x0, time 377157, (172,-7), root:(1121,15),
>     state 0x4, keycode 57 (keysym 0x6e, n), same_screen YES,
>     XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (0e) ""
>     XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (0e) ""
>     XFilterEvent returns: False
> 
> Since I cannot get hold on an older version of xserver-xorg-input-evdev
> package, I cannot make sure the problem is actually on input-evdev.
> 
> 
> http://snapshot.debian.org/ stop archive old packages since 2009/03/.
> 
If this isn't fixed in 2.2.5 I'll try and make some older debs available
for you to test.

Cheers,
Julien