On Monday, August 08, 2011 09:01:22 AM Gordan Bobic wrote:
On Mon, 8 Aug 2011 08:54:30 -0500, Dennis Gilmore
<dennis(a)ausil.us>
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
Dennis