On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 10:20:17PM +0100, Maximilian Friedersdorff wrote: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 08:53:33PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > > > > > In my own builds, evdev installs 10-evdev.conf (in my case that is, > > I think, in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ but building by the book > > might put it somewhere else ;-) Maximilian - do you have such a > > file ? In my case, it appears to be set to grab all keyboard > > events, even from exotic keyboards. > > > > And that makes me think that evdev is the area you need to look at, > > not udev. > > > > For people like us who don't use the 'us' keymap, the keyboard ought > > to show up - if it appears as 'us' then some non-alphabetic keys > > will differ but the alpha keys should be ok. > > > > Something like the following, in xorg.conf.d/11-keyboard.conf ought > > to work for changing it from us to gb, when the keyboard shows up > > (I forget if we cover this in the book, and my own is a bit more > > complex) - > > > > # Based on a posting on the xorg lists, adapted > > # > > Section "InputClass" > > Identifier "keyboard-all" > > Driver "evdev" > > Option "XkbLayout" "gb" > > Option "XkbModel" "evdev" > > MatchIsKeyboard "on" > > EndSection > > > > ĸen > > I tried placing the above in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ (which should be the > standard location for these things.) It made no difference unfortunately. > There are similar files in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d, but they should be > having no effect. X11 was compiled with --sysconfdir=/etc. >
If they were already in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d then adding them to /etc is unlikely to change anything. > LFS is now running directly on the hardware. Most of the packages however > were originally compiled while it was running in a VM. > A question I did not think to ask earlier - did Xorg work in the VM ? For video, X in a VM probably needs a different video driver, but unless it is vmware then the keyboard and mouse probably use evdev as on real hardware. > I have noticed the following lines in /var/log/Xorg.0.log: > > UnloadingModule: "fbdev" > Unloading: "fbdev" > > This comes before the lines pertaining to the mouse mentioned earlier. That is part of X determining what to do for the video and before that you will see several lines about (possible) video modules. On some of my systems, when I built all of the possible video drivers I got a list of up to 5 of them. > > Is it possible to attach files when posting to the mailing lists (n00b)? If > so maybe my Xorg.0.log might be helpful. > > Max Should be fine - there is a size limit. You can edit out all the lines about video resolutiojs (after the first), on some machines there are a lot of those and they are irrelevant to the keyboard problem. ĸen -- `I shall take my mountains', said Lu-Tze. `The climate will be good for them.' -- Small Gods -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
