Bug 574301

I have to run

$ setxkbmap -model pc105 "us,ru" ",winkeys" "grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll"

after logging on to revert the sane, normal, right keyboard behaviour.

Peter, happened to xkeyboard-config since v1.7?

First of all, why Russian is selected as default? (yes, my /etc/sysconfig/keyboard has KEYTABLE="ru", but it's never caused any troubles).

Secondly, why my custom /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi is being ignored?

I have erased hal fdi file and /etc/sysconfig/keyboard file and now I set language options manually upon logon, because keyboard is f*cked up. I'm upset in a major way.

Can you, please, at least announce changes in a keyboard handling so that users don't feel like idiots?

I have deleted the custom keyboard configuration for HAL and updated /etc/sysconfig/keyboard from this

KEYBOARDTYPE="pc"
KEYTABLE="ru"

to this

KEYTABLE="ru"
MODEL="pc105"
LAYOUT="us,ru"
KEYBOARDTYPE="pc"
OPTIONS="grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll,ctrl:nocaps"
VARIANT=""

Now everything works as expected.

/etc/sysconfig/keyboard X11 specific options are NOT documented anywhere in Fedora documentation which is absolutely frustrating.

I don't see anything in xk-c between 1.6 and 1.7 that should have affected russian layouts much (also, Sergey the upstream maintainer is russian so I thought he'd keep an eye on that anyway).

Test the following please:
- remove the callout from your custom fdi file, then restart HAL and check if the order is now correct (check with lshal).
- change the keys from input.xkb.foo to input.x11_options.XkbFoo, the latter override the former so you shouldn't get any conflicts with system-setup-keyboard.


other than that, do you have any desktop configuration that might interfere?
can you please attach your xorg.log and the output of lshal?

OK, I've reverted the changes to their wrong state:

1) /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi file (listed above)

2) cat /etc/sysconfig/keyboard

KEYBOARDTYPE="pc"
KEYTABLE="ru"

3) what we've got,  $ hal-device

8: udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_i8042_i8042_KBD_port_logicaldev_input'   linux.hotplug_type = 2  (0x2)  (int)   linux.subsystem = 'input'  (string)   input.xkb.options = 'grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll,grp:shifts_toggle,grp_led:scroll'  (string)   info.callouts.add = { 'system-setup-keyboard' } (string list)   input.device = '/dev/input/event0'  (string)   input.product = 'AT Translated Set 2 keyboard'  (string)   info.addons.singleton = { 'hald-addon-input' } (string list)   input.xkb.rules = 'base'  (string)   input.xkb.model = 'pc105'  (string)   input.originating_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_i8042_i8042_KBD_port'  (string)   info.subsystem = 'input'  (string)   info.product = 'AT Translated Set 2 keyboard'  (string)   linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input0/event0'  (string)   info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_i8042_i8042_KBD_port'  (string)   input.x11_driver = 'evdev'  (string)   info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_i8042_i8042_KBD_port_logicaldev_input'  (string)   input.xkb.variant = ''  (string)   info.category = 'input'  (string)   info.capabilities = { 'input', 'input.keyboard', 'input.keypad', 'input.keys', 'button' } (string list)   linux.device_file = '/dev/input/event0'  (string)   input.xkb.layout = 'ru,us'  (string)

I don't know what caused these changes, but a month ago with the same configuration everything worked as expected.

Now, that I reworked /etc/sysconfig/keyboard and removed keyboard fdi file everything is back to normal.

system-setup-keyboard-0.8.4-1.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/system-setup-keyboard-0.8.4-1.fc13

system-setup-keyboard-0.7-3.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/system-setup-keyboard-0.7-3.fc12

I just tested your fdi file and I can confirm it doesn't work (just in case you didn't know yourself already ;)

I think the cause of the issue is the callout to system-setup-keyboard that overwrites your fdi-set options because the lshal output suggests that the variant and options are merged, only the others are being overwritten by the defaults. So for now I suggest either what you already did anyway or to change the fdi file to merge the input.x11_options.XkbLayout etc. keys.

Given that HAL is already deprecated and removed in F-13, I probably won't find the time to investigate what's going on here, sorry.

The two updates are for the man page addition to detail the layout to XKB conversion tables.

Peter,

Now that I've solved this bug by myself, I only wish that /etc/sysconfig/keyboard options were documented. :)

system-setup-keyboard-0.8.4-1.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

system-setup-keyboard-0.7-3.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.