On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 17:45 -0400, Will Siddall wrote:
Hey all, I say I'm pretty comfortable with everything in arch now, but this keyboard issue is starting to drive me nuts. Not too long ago, the change from using kbd to evdev was made and ever since then, my keyboard is all messed up. I can still use my keyboard, but specific keys are changed around.
Looking around, everyone is refering to issues with KDEMod, but I'm using Gnome and using the Evdev-Managed Keyboard. I specified in my 10-keymap.fdi rule file the proper settings and updated my xorg.conf with no change.
The real issue I have is my arrow keys don't work anymore (except for the up arrow is giving me the ScreenCap window) and using xev, the keys are bringing back keycodes for other events. Which is making it REALLY hard to work with vi and just working with the command line in general.
Am I actually going to have to re-key all my keycodes by hand? or is there a way to find out what's going on and properly set my key events?
Upgrade to xorg-server 1.5.3-3 and set your keyboard in KDE to "evdev managed keyboard" or something similiar. Setting it to a specific other model that matches your keyboard will mess up keybindings when using evdev.