Bug 198823

Summary:	keyboard broken under x after ugrade from fc4
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Marty Vona <vona>
Component:	xorg-x11	Assignee:	X/OpenGL Maintenance List <xgl-maint>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version:	5	CC:	mcepl
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Description Marty Vona 2006-07-13 21:38:37 UTC

Description of problem:

After upgrading to fc5 from fc4, my ps2 keyboard stopped functioning under X. 
It still worked fine at the console.  Also, it worked fine during the
(graphical) install process.

The X console output included a number of error/warning messages related to
XKEYBOARD kemapping, e.g.:

expected keysym, got XF86_Switch_VT_1: line 52 of pc

Despite much searching, I did not find any reports of related issues in the
fedora bug tracker.  I did turn up something similar in the debian tracker:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=364932

And I was able to use the information there to apparrently resolve the issue.

I had installed two packages a while back to support compiling some old software:

compat-libs-6.2-3
libc5compat-X11

and these in turn installed a number of libraries under

/usr/i386-glibc21-linux
/usr/lib/libc5-compat

which apparrently conflicted with the new xorg installation, somehow preventing
the keyboard from working properly.

rpm -e compat-libs-6.2-3 libc5compat-X11

seems to have resolved the issue.


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Comment 1 Matěj Cepl 2006-10-27 14:21:28 UTC

Since this bugzilla report was filed, there have been several major
updates to the X Window System, which may resolve this issue.

Users who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade to the
latest version of Fedora Core, which can be obtained from:

        http://fedora.redhat.com/download

If you encounter this bug again in the latest release of Fedora Core, please
reopen this bug so we could test and work with you to resolve the issue in the
current environment.

Thanks.

On this issue may be relevant discussion at 
http://www.sql.ru/forum/actualthread.aspx?tid=297015 (in 
Russian), where somebody tried to install Oracle 8.1.7B on Fedora 
Core 5. The suggested solution was to install normal Fedora Core 5, packages
compat-db, compat-gcc-32, compat-gcc-32-c++, compat-gcc-32-g77,
compat-libf2c-32, compat-libgcc-296, compat-libstdc++, compat-libstdc++-33,
compat-openldap, compat-readline43, compat-slang,

and then make a link make a link to older version of GCC
(ln –s /usr/bin/gcc296 /usr/bin/gcc).