Bug#543903: xserver-xorg-input-evdev: keyboard layout mysteriously changes

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 14:06:42 +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:

> Le jeudi 27 août 2009 13:31:22 Noah Meyerhans, vous avez écrit :
> > Package: xserver-xorg-input-evdev
> > Version: 1:2.2.5-1
> > Severity: important
> >
> >
> > Recently the keyboard layout within X has started unexpectedly
> > reconfiguring itself.  The problem may somehow be related to
> > suspend-to-RAM events, but that's just a guess.  The machine in question
> > is a thinkpad x300.
> >
> > Not all keys are affected.  The affected keys seem to be the arrow keys,
> > the right Control and Alt keys, and the Insert, Delete, Page Up, etc.
> > cluster.  xev shows, for example, that Page Down gets mapped to Menu,
> > while Page Up gets mapped to KP_Divide.
> >
> > Switching keyboard layout and options using KDE's xkb interface doesn't
> > seem to have any effect, nor does changing to a VT and back to X.
> >
> > noah
> 
> Hi Noah, hi xserver-xorg-input-evdev maintainers, 
> 
> I am experiencing exactly the same behaviour. I can recover big parts of my 
> keyboard layout by using setxkbmap, but the arrows never get back to something 
> useable (having PrintScreen triggered instead of "up" is _really_ annoying) 
> without an X restart.
> 
> I am hesitant about the severity (I'd have set it "serious"), but it's not my 
> call…
> 
Sounds like something is resetting the xkb rules to base instead of
evdev.  Most likely not a driver bug.  You're both kde users?

Cheers,
Julien