* Alexander Puchmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-06 13:26:44 +0100]:

> Am Donnerstag, 6. Januar 2005 12:35 schrieb Bill Roberts:
> > On 11:11 Thu 06 Jan     , Alexander Puchmayr wrote:
> > > Hi there!
> > >
> > > After moving from xfree86 to xorg-x11 I have a serious problem with my
> > > keyboard.
> > >
> > > The problem is, that my notebook doesn't seem to have a keyboard that
> > > is 100% compatible with a normal german one. Inparticular, the
> > > less/greater key is on a different position and has a different keycode
> > > (106 instead of 94 in  the "standard" one).
> > >
> > > Under xfree, it was sufficient to change /etc/X11/xkb/keycodes/xfree86
> > > and redefine LSGT to 106, but this doesn't seem to work under xorg (I
> > > copied the xkb/keycodes/xfree86 file from the old version)
> > >
> > > What do I have to do to fix this?
> >
> > Alex
> >
> > xorg-x11 requires a new keyboard driver "kbd" in "xorg.conf", as below:
> >
> > Section "InputDevice"
> >         Identifier  "Keyboard0"
> >  Driver      "kbd"
> >  Option      "XkbModel"  "pc104"
> >  Option      "XkbLayout" "us"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Could that be the problem?
> >
> 
> MY xorg.conf looks like this
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "Keyboard0"
>         Driver      "kbd"
>         Option      "XkbModel" "pc104"
>         Option      "XkbLayout" "de"
>         Option      "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
>         Option      "XkbRules" "xfree86"
> EndSection
> 
> Greetings
>  Alex
> 

Remove the XkbRules, they aren't needed anymore for xorg

Regards,

Jan
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