Andreas Nilsson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I recently did a clean install of 2008.11 preview build 100a, and now my
> keyboard behaves a bit strange. In my previous install of 2008.05 it worked
> as I wanted it. The computer is a Lenovo ThinkPad T61p.
>
> First: I have a english keyboard ( computer bought in the US) but as I'm
> located in Sweden I need to use some Swedish characters. I have a keymap file
> that lets me use r_alt+{ ;,',[ } to type them. But in 2008.11 the r_alt key
> is detected as ModeSwitch according to xev.
Yes, on Solaris, Right Alt has always mapped to Alt Graph, aka Mode Switch.
I believe Linux defaults to the same as well now.
> When reading /var/log/xorg.0.log the keyboard is detected as a sun_type6_usb.
> So i tried to modify this, and created a /etc/X11/xorg.conf with the
> following def for keyboard:
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Keyboard0"
> Driver "kbd"
> Option "XbkModel" "pc105"
You have a typo there in XkbModel.
> Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
> EndSection
>
> But after restarting X the keyboard still gets detected as sun_type6_usb.
That's the default - it's just pc105 plus definitions of the extra keys found
on Sun keyboards. If you use a non-Sun keyboard, you won't be generating
events with those keycodes, so they shouldn't bother anything.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
