Description of problem: When using the evdev driver and of course the evdev keyboard model there is one important key no longer available in german layout, which provides symbols for redirecting output on the terminal ('<', '>', '|'). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.3.0.0-9.fc7 libxkbfile-1.0.4-1.fc7 libxkbui-1.0.1-1.2 libxkbui-1.0.1-1.2 libxkbfile-1.0.4-1.fc7 xorg-x11-xkb-utils-1.0.2-3.fc7 How reproducible: just activate evdev driver, keyboard model evdev and layout de. Then try to use the key right of the left shift key and left of 'Y' (on QWERTZ keyboard, or 'Z' on QWERTY). Steps to Reproduce: 1. change /etc/X11/xorg.conf in section InputDevice to something like: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard1" Driver "evdev" Option "XkbRules" "xorg" Option "XkbModel" "evdev" Option "XkbLayout" "de" Option "Device" "/dev/input/event1" EndSection 2. activate the keyboard in server layout 3. restart X 4. try to enter something that contains '<' '>' or '|' Actual results: The key does not produce any input, when using xev it tells that the scancode is 94 with no symbol assigned. Expected results: The key should work as in other de layouts, i.e. when using this configuration: Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "de" when pressing the key alone it should create '<', with shift '>' and with the right ALT key (AltGr) it should create '|'. Additional info: I was able to fix this with applying the following changes: in /usr/share/X11/xkb/keycodes/evdev i added the following line: <LESS> = 94; in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/de i added this line: key <LESS> { [ less, greater, bar, brokenbar ] }; I am not aware of side effects, but it is my first change on any xkb config, so i might have missed something.
Actually, it might be good to see your *complete* /etc/X11/xorg.conf and especially your /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Could we get them as uncompressed separate attachments of this bug? Thank you.
Created attachment 252071 [details] complete xorg.conf
Created attachment 252081 [details] Xorg Log The X-Server gets started for layout Singleheadlayout.
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I updated my system to Fedora 9 and this bug seems to be resolved there. I took the files as delivered by the installation image and the keyboard is working as expected.