[gentoo-user] hal-0.5.11-r1 and keyboard layout and input issues

[Liviu Andronic]

Dear Gentoo users,

I have installed the latest stable hal-0.5.11-r1 and hal-info-20080508
yesterday, and I give up: i cannot configure the keyboard layout as it
was previously in xorg.conf, and i cannot use the left-hand shift (the
latter is the annoying part). Here's what i have:

/etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "keyboard"
        Option      "CoreKeyboard"
        Option      "XkbRules"  "xorg"
        Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "gb,fr,ru,ro"
        Option      "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle"
        Option "XkbVariant"  ",,winkeys,std"
EndSection

Trying
       Driver      "evdev"
would make X not start any more. I tried playing with
/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-keymap.fdi to no avail. It
seems to me that X uses evdev, no matter what I try. Also, I have only
en_US as layout and "left shift" launches xfce's help, although as a
shortcut key F1 is disabled here. I also disabled my .Xmodmap.

Can anyone suggest how to revert to my xorg.conf configuration, and to
make "left shift" a "proper" modifier key, again? Thank you,
Liviu



On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Daniel Pielmeier
<daniel.pielmeier@××××××××××.com> wrote:
>> This is the symptom I see when I try "evdev" driver and am using a MS
>> Natural Pro keyboard.  Briefly the keyboard is handled as two USB
>> devices.  The keys that work are on the first device, the ones that
>> don't on the second device.  Following gentoo-wiki howtos it looks like
>> you have to hack the kernel.  At that point I simply reverted to using
>> the "kbd" driver.  Maybe some year evdev will mature...
>>
>> Quick check, look in your xorg.conf "ServerLayout" section, identify
>> which keyboard InputDevice, then check to see which driver it is using.
>>