Re: Xorg strange keyboard behaviour

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On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Borislav Gerassimov
<borislavba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2009/10/26 Philipp Gesang <pgesang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> 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...

What about looking whether the problem is reported upstream.
And reporting it if it isn't.


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