On Mon, 8 Aug 2011 09:34:51 -0500, Dennis Gilmore <dennis@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Monday, August 08, 2011 09:01:22 AM Gordan Bobic wrote: >> On Mon, 8 Aug 2011 08:54:30 -0500, Dennis Gilmore <dennis@xxxxxxxx> >> >> wrote: >> >> >> I'm using KDE (at the moment, going to try to get XFCE >> working >> >> >> >> >> >> soon), >> >> >> >> >> >> and whatever system-config-keyboard does fixes it, but also >> >> >> >> >> >> whatever >> >> >> it >> >> >> >> >> >> does isn't surviving a reboot. :-/ >> >> > >> >> > sometimes strace and grep open is a quicker way to find things >> >> >> >> like >> >> >> >> > this >> >> > than using the source >> >> >> >> Indeed they do, I figured it out. >> >> >> >> The problem is that system-config-keyboard edits xorg.conf, and >> >> >> >> does so >> >> >> >> extremely poorly and brokenly. It actually breaks a valid >> >> >> >> xorg.conf, in >> >> >> >> fact, by creating a ServerLayout section without an Identifier >> >> >> >> entry. >> >> >> >> But the real problem is that it creates a broken keyboard entry >> >> >> >> that >> >> >> >> doesn't do anything. Because it loads the keymap at run time, >> the >> >> settings go live in the current session, but after re-starting >> >> >> >> xorg, >> >> >> >> they don't get re-applied because the InputDevice section that >> >> system-config-keyboard created is broken. Xorg.0.log eventually >> got >> >> >> >> me >> >> >> >> looking in the right direction. the main thing that the >> InputDevice >> >> section was missing was the >> >> >> >> Option "Device" "/dev/input/event0" >> >> >> >> line. Without it the keyboard entry failed, and on Tegra at >> least, >> >> >> >> NVEC >> >> >> >> keyboard would get detected on that device node and started, >> which >> >> >> >> would >> >> >> >> default to the US layout every time. >> >> >> >> The solution was to fix the InputDevice entry manually, and use >> the >> >> evdev driver. After that NVEC (found via udev it seems) driver >> gets >> >> loaded, but it sees that the device is already claimed, so it >> goes >> >> >> >> away. >> >> >> >> The net result is the keyboard working with the correct map. >> >> >> >> I'm not entirely sure what against to file this bug report, or >> even >> >> where. I'm guessing against system-config-keyboard, but we're >> not >> >> >> >> up to >> >> >> >> the point where we can build/test rawhide on Fedora on ARM, are >> we? >> >> >> >> My >> >> >> >> experience is that in genereal, the life cycle of fedora is too >> >> >> >> short >> >> >> >> for the fixes to ever arrive for anything except Rawhide... >> > >> > I suspect that this is entirely an issue that effects only tegra >> > based devices. >> > I have a spanish keyboard in my smartbook and ithas all just >> worked >> > as >> > expected. >> >> Did you have a xorg.conf or were you running without it? >> >> I don't see how some parts of this could be Tegra specific, >> specifically the fact that it creates a ServerLayout section if >> there >> isn't one there and doesn't create an Identifier entry in it. That >> along >> will make Xorg fail to start. Can you check whetiher it does that >> on >> your system? >> > > # Xorg configuration created by system-config-display > > Section "ServerLayout" > Identifier "single head configuration" > Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 > InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" > EndSection > > Section "InputDevice" > # keyboard added by system-config-display > Identifier "Keyboard0" > Driver "kbd" > Option "XkbModel" "pc105" > Option "XkbLayout" "es" > EndSection > > Section "Device" > Identifier "Videocard0" > #Driver "fbdev" > Driver "imx" > EndSection > > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Screen0" > Device "Videocard0" > DefaultDepth 24 > SubSection "Display" > Viewport 0 0 > Depth 24 > EndSubSection > EndSection > > > thats my xorg.conf file. its been awhile since i set it all up so i > dont > remeber if it was there before i switched the keyboard from english > to spanish Right, that's why it works for you. Back up your xorg.conf while X is running, and remove the ServerLayout section. Then try system-config-keyboard and see what it does. If I'm right, it'll create a ServerLayout section without the Identifier entry. Gordan _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
