Over the weekend, I upgraded a sacrificial copy of my current 'lenny' to 'squeeze' and ran into a rather odd keyboard issue:
Specifically, the Down and PgDown keys were no longer working. I ran xev and saw that they were respectively mapped to Super_R and Compose although I don't remember the upgrade procedure prompting me at any point to specify anything relative to keyboard configuration. Google search popped up a couple of threads where other users had run into similar problems, indicating that the culprit might be something called 'evdev' and that the following command might fix the issue: --------------------------------------------------------------------- $ setxkbmap -rules evdev --------------------------------------------------------------------- Another poster recommended building an xorg.conf file that would cause the X server to revert to the old 'non-evdev' behavior: --------------------------------------------------------------------- # /etc/X11/xorg.conf (X Window System server configuration file) Section "ServerFlags" Option "DontZap" "off" Option "AutoAddDevices" "False" Option "AllowEmptyInput" "False" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbRules" "xorg" Option "XkbModel" "pc104" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection --------------------------------------------------------------------- Indeed, both workarounds appear to fix the problem for now, but all the same, they have left me a little frustrated. Could someone knowledgeable comment on this and explain what's going on? Thanks, CJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org