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.
