Bug 16009
| Summary: | ALT key broken | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Richard Allen <ra> |
| Component: | XFree86 | Assignee: | Trond Eivind Glomsrxd <teg> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | 7.1 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | Winston gold | ||
| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2000-08-15 16:21:15 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Richard Allen
2000-08-11 17:24:44 UTC
This defect is considered MUST-FIX for Winston Gold-release Very very little. Can you confirm that the XFree86 config file is correct? Uh ? It4s just as anaconda created it. Which sections in XF86Config are you interested in ? PS: even the pipe character need's the ALT key (|) :( What does it have in the Keyboard section (for XFree3) or InputDevice section (for XFree4)? Ok. Details are as follows (Sorry for not posting them immediatly.)
My box has a built in Matrox G200 that Im not using. It also has a PCI Voodoo3
3000. The installation went like a charm (whithout any hitches.)
in section keyboard in /etc/X11/XF86Config (comments removed):
Section "Keyboard"
Protocol "Standard"
AutoRepeat 500 5
LeftAlt Meta
RightAlt Meta
ScrollLock Compose
RightCtl Control
XkbRules "xfree86"
XkbModel "pc102"
XkbLayout "is" XkbVariant "None"
XkbOptions ""
EndSection
in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (comments also removed)
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
Option "XkbLayout" "is"
Option "XkbVariant" "None"
Option "XkbOptions" ""
EndSection
The only wierd thing IMHO is that I think it should be pc101 XkbModel.
If you change it to pc101, does it work? (Sorry, we don't have any icelandic keyboards here to test with. ;) ) No it had no effect. Why do you need an Icelandic keyboard to test with ? The only difference between it and your standard US keyboard is whats printed on the keys themselvs. You can go into your XF86Config file, change "XkbLayout" to be "is" (not "us") and try pressing alt-gr (The alt key on the right of the space bar) and Q. If you get an @, the problem is fixed. If not, we still have a problem. If you want to see how it (the Icelandic keymap) works, switch to the console and do: "loadkeys is-latin1" and then press alt-q (The pipe char should be on ALT and the key on the left side of the Z key) I got the keymap file from a RedHat 6.1 (Cartman) system and placed it into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols (filename "is") and restarted X. No luck. It's actually remarkable how hard life get's without the @ and | symbols :-) (I had to search quite a bit for the | char in exsisting scripts to be able to cut'n'paste it into this :-) Trond, please investigate XFree3 or XFree4 server (not that it should matter, but it might.) Remove the 'Option "XkbVariant" "none"' and it should work. (alternatively, change "none" to "".) This just got fixed in anaconda five minutes ago. :) This works with Norwegian dead-keys layout as well. *** Bug 15045 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** |