Keyboard problems

Tony Molloy tony.molloy at ul.ie
Fri Apr 11 09:32:14 UTC 2008


On Friday 11 April 2008 10:24:53 Anne Wilson wrote:
> Rawhide insists that I use a US keyboard.  I'm forever hunting for the
> whereabouts of non-alphanumeric keys and it's driving me mad.
>
> System-config-keyboard knows that I want a UK keyboard.  However, it
> reports
>
> Loading /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/uk.map.gz
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/system-config-keyboard/keyboard_gui.py", line 226, in
> _okClicked
>     return self.apply(None, False)
>   File "/usr/share/system-config-keyboard/keyboard_gui.py", line 117, in
> apply keyboardBackend.modifyXconfig(fullname, layout, model, variant,
> options) File "/usr/share/system-config-keyboard/keyboard_backend.py", line
> 34, in modifyXconfig
>     keyboard = xf86config.getCoreKeyboard(xconfig)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/xf86config.py", line 177, in
> getCoreKeyboard
>     raise XF86SectionMissing("No CoreKeyboard InputDevice found in the
> layout")
> xf86config.XF86SectionMissing
>
> I tried putting in a keyboard section, but Xorg.conf seems to be
> dynamically produced these days, so re-starting X just puts me back with
> the default US keyboard.  Is there nothing that can be done about this?
>
> Anne

Adding the following to xorg.conf works for me!!!

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection


Tony




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