2009/10/26 Philipp Gesang :

Good morning,

since a few days I'm experiencing an unwanted behaviour in X: after some time, apparently when cycling keyboard layouts, the key just don't work as expected anymore.  For example pressing RALT will give return, the left arrow will be remapped to change group etc.  Terminating and restarting X will remove the problem; everything works fine on terminals.

The error is not reproducible but seems to be related to/caused by layout switching.  And I'm switching very often.  I'm using Openbox 3.4.7.2, Kxkb, Xorg 1.6.3.901-1.  On my second box where I use wmii with keybound scripts for layout switching the error didn't show up yet.  I'm appending xorg.conf, xkb configuration, and selected output of xev _after_ the error occured.  Feel free to request any logs.

Thanks for Your help!

Philipp

setxkbmap -print        http://pastie.org/private/uxqg99n6uhap9dknis1gig xorg.conf               http://pastie.org/private/qchqolhh0dltdtidnrxb6q xevents                 http://pastie.org/private/1a6edox5b1r8fdvkbbxoq

It happens to me too. I have xorg from testing (1.7.1) with the following drivers: ati, evdev, keyboard and mouse. Input hotplugging is enabled with keyboard layout switching defined in the only .fdi file in /etc/hal/fdi/policy ("grp:alt_shift_toggle,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"). "Option DontZap false" is in xorg.conf. Nothing abnormal I think... Everything was working fine two weeks ago until the moment KMS was enabled I think... I'm using it (at least tried to, it's not working in my case, radeon hd3200 is not supported yet) but with nomodeset this happens too. Maybe it's not the cause, just noticing. Sometimes Ctrl + Alt + F1 and then Alt + F7 helps, but sometimes it just kills the X session with whatever login manager or desktop environment is installed. I hope somebody knows what's wrong :) -- Поздрави, Борислав! | Greetings, Borislav! ----------------------------------------------------------- Природосъобразно писмо, не печатай! Eco-friendly email. don't print!