Dan McDonald wrote:
> Background: I don't use gdm. I type "xinit" after I get a console shell. I
> have a Toshiba Portege R600, as sold with OpenSolaris built-in. I use IPS.
> I have an external keyboard (old MacAlly iKey, circa 1999) and use an
> external 1920x1200 display for working at home.
>
> In build 111b, everything worked. I had to insert a symlink for this file:
>
> /usr/X11/lib/X11/xkb/rules/base
>
> but after that, things worked.
>
> Now that we're up to 118, things broke again. My external USB keyboard had
> its alphabetic characters mapped to Arabic, according to xev. I managed to
> work around this by replacing the new version of "base" above with the one
> from build 111b (which is actually "xorg" from 111b).
Strange - what does the /var/log/Xorg.0.log show the keyboard
layout is detected as and trying to auto-load?
> So the first breakage (remapping after entering X) is worked around by using
> 111b's "base" file.
>
> The SECOND breakage is more alarming. After I exit X, all keyboards start
> generating complete and utter garbage. This includes the built-in laptop
> keyboard, for crying out loud.
Try running kbd_mode -a to reset to the input mode the kernel
console expects. The X server kbd driver should be doing
this on exit - normally the manual kbd_mode is only needed if
X crashes, and only if you run xinit directly instead of the
more user-friendly "startx" wrapper script that makes sure
kbd_mode is called after X exits.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
