Bug 477049 - non-evdev-managed gnome keyboard model causes problems
Summary: non-evdev-managed gnome keyboard model causes problems
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: control-center
Version: 10
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Control Center Maintainer
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-12-18 20:49 UTC by Richard Guest
Modified: 2009-01-17 05:49 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-01-17 05:49:23 UTC
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Description Richard Guest 2008-12-18 20:49:55 UTC 
I discovered this problem, after a Fedora 10 upgrade (from 9) on both my Dell Latitude D610 laptop and my Dell desktop with Kinesis USB keyboard. I had issues with some control keys sending incorrect keycodes (e.g. left arrow sent Alt_R, Alt_L sent Delete and up arrow send PrintScr... there were more).

The solution for me was to set the 'Keyboard Model' in gnome-keyboard-properties to 'Evdev-managed keyboard' and everything's fine.

Changing the 'Keyboard Model' back (to 'Dell Latitude Series Laptop', for example) reproduces the problem 100% of the time.
Comment 1 Matthias Clasen 2009-01-17 05:49:23 UTC 
That is not a bug. X is using the evdev driver, thus "Evdev-managed keyboard" is the correct configuration.
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