2008/3/9, bardo <ilbardo@xxxxxxxxx>: > Hi all. > I'm experiencing a strange problem with my Apple aluminium keyboard: a > few days ago the F1-F4 keys stopped working, and the ` and < keys were > swapped (meaning: pressing one of the keys gives the output of the > other). If I changed my layout the same two keys were swapped, even > though they now mapped other carachters, so it should be a scancode > problem. This happens in both X and in console, the keyboard was > working fine before and it works fine if plugged to any other machine. > Hard to say which package broke the whole thing, since it happened > after a 600MB upgrade, but I suspect the usual udev... > > Trying to fix the problem I plugged another usb keyboard to the same > port, but everything was ok, so I began playing with showkey and xev. > Result: the Apple keyboard returns different scancodes and keycodes > from the other one. The same kayboard is broken on the two Arch > machines I own, which both run testing, and I was able to find a user > on IRC with the very same keyboard working outside of testing. > Downgrading xorg-server did not work (as I expected, since the console > is broken, too) and I'm starting to run out of ideas. Any help will be > greatly appreciated. There was a bug in kernel related to defkeymap, now fixed in the latest kernel package, but it was related mostly to accents, not to normal keycodes. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
