-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Le Sam 23 février 2008 21:14, David Nielsen a écrit : > >> For me the new xserver is some what less broken, everything seems to >> work >> except the keyboard is acting mighty funny. I press up arrow and the >> gnome-screenshot application starts up. Capslock seems to be on at all >> times regardless of the setting. > > Latest xorg server is linked to hal. That means hal-auto-input got > enabled, and your input devices were probably switched to evdev. (this > is good). For some definition of good (presently not mine) :) I'm using XFCE and I've hit this, where alt-tab and crtl-<arrow> are now not functional. > > Unfortunately evdev has a huge configuration design flaw every new > user hits - if anything sets the keyboard model to something else than > evdev ("evdev-managed generic keyboard" in Gnome keyboard properties) > some keys will misbehave, and in particular arrow up will become > printscreen. > > So the solution to your problem is to check all the apps that may set > xkb settings do use the evdev model and not something else. > > More accurately, in an hal-auto-input world, you need to either: > 1. remove any input config sections from xorg.conf > 2. add the magic configuration directives that tell xorg to accept an > xorg.conf with no input directives > 3. re-configure GNOME/KDE/etc to use the evdev keyboard model > 4. (optionnal) fine-tune your input config through an hal fdi file > I have no idea how to tell XFCE to use evdev, so... > *or* > 1. add the magic config directive that tells xorg to ignore hal > auto-input altogether > > Any mix of pre-hal input settings and auto-input is going to result in > dead kittens. > > (from memory the xorg.conf directives that control hal auto-input are > in the english xorg.conf man page, search for hal or auto and you > should find three successive options) > I tried adding this to my xorg.conf, but to no effect: Section "ServerFlags" Option "DisableModInDev" "true" Option "AutoAddDevices" "false" EndSection Are these the options you were thinking of and if so did I mis-interpret their meaning? Do I need to add AutoEnableDevices "false" as well? Clark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkfC29oACgkQHyuj/+TTEp1oAgCggGgXuuIOz1Wh5VK7lkT26Z4N 0PwAoIdVUUfEZGrSFmhW4bbeqv0r1pX2 =PFvN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list