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In order to improve support when using evdev to manage input devices, in
particular keyboards, we have switched the default in x11/libxkbcommon
to the evdev instead of the legacy ruleset. This was done in ports
r528813 .
On FreeBSD 11.3, the default configuration still requires the legacy
ruleset.
If you are using FreeBSD 11.3, or if you are using xf86-input-keyboard
on FreeBSD 12 or later, you need to change the ruleset used by
x11/libxkbcommon.
If you have issues with your keyboard, most notably arrow keys, and if
/var/log/Xorg.*.log shows that the "kbd" or "keyboard" driver is being
used, you need to switch to legacy rules by setting the environment
variable XKB_DEFAULT_RULES to xorg.
The easiest way to accomplish this is by adding it to your shell startup
file.
As an example, for users of [t]csh, put
setenv XKB_DEFAULT_RULES xorg
in ~/.login
For users of bourne type shells (sh, bash, ksh, zsh, ...) instead put
export XKB_DEFAULT_RULES=xorg
in ~/.profile
Regards
--
Niclas Zeising
FreeBSD Graphics Team
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