Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 80648
(xkb estonian)No way to type "|" character
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:49:21 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021218 Description of problem: I am using a keyboard with Estonian layout but after upgrade to Phoebe I can not type a "|" character under KDE. Under console there it is fine ([Alt Gr]+ key right to leftmost [shift]) , but under KDE I find no key combination to get me a "|". Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Upgrade to Phoebe; 2. Start KDE; 3. Configure keybord settings to ee (Estonian); 3. Start a konsole/konqueror/....; 4. Type the "|" character; Actual Results: '<' or nothing at all depending keybord model. Expected Results: "|". Additional info: Both console and konsole are showing: [IS@sarmax IS]$ echo $LANG en_US.UTF-8 [IS@sarmax IS]$ echo $SUPPORTED en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en:et_EE.UTF-8:et_EE:et [IS@sarmax IS]$ Also I tried to change the "Keyboard model" (I have Keytronic 800 set to "Generic 102-key (Intl) PC"), but it made situation even worse as some models even lost more characters. Additionally it made no difference if to try US/FI/... with this keyboard - there is nowhere a "|" character.
please set "XkbModel" to "pc105" in your XF86Config or XF86Config-4. It should work again. It's perhaps a bug in XFree86
No effect: [IS@sarmax IS]$ cat /etc/X11/XF86Config # XFree86 4 configuration created by pyxf86config Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "DevInputMice" "AlwaysCore" EndSection Section "Files" # RgbPath is the location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the # file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally # no need to change the default. # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) # By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of # the X server to render fonts. RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" FontPath "unix/:7100" EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "extmod" Load "fbdevhw" Load "glx" Load "record" Load "freetype" Load "type1" Load "dri" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1)) # Option "Xleds" "1 2 3" # To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable. # Option "XkbDisable" # To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the # lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S. # keyboard, you will probably want to use: # Option "XkbModel" "pc102" # If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use: # Option "XkbModel" "microsoft" # # Then to change the language, change the Layout setting. # For example, a german layout can be obtained with: # Option "XkbLayout" "de" # or: # Option "XkbLayout" "de" # Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys" # # If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and # control keys, use: # Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps" # Or if you just want both to be control, use: # Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps" # Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "keyboard" Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "ee" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" # Modified by mouseconfig Driver "mouse" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" Option "Protocol" "MouseManPlusPS/2" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # If the normal CorePointer mouse is not a USB mouse then # this input device can be used in AlwaysCore mode to let you # also use USB mice at the same time. Identifier "DevInputMice" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Monitor Vendor" ModelName "P95f" DisplaySize 360 270 HorizSync 30.0 - 117.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 180.0 ModeLine "1400x1050" 129.0 1400 1464 1656 1960 1050 1051 1054 1100 +hsync +vsync ModeLine "1400x1050" 151.0 1400 1464 1656 1960 1050 1051 1054 1100 +hsync +vsync ModeLine "1400x1050" 162.0 1400 1464 1656 1960 1050 1051 1054 1100 +hsync +vsync ModeLine "1400x1050" 184.0 1400 1464 1656 1960 1050 1051 1054 1100 +hsync +vsync Option "dpms" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "mga" VendorName "Videocard vendor" BoardName "Matrox Millennium G550" VideoRam 32768 EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 16 SubSection "Display" Modes "800x600" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection Section "DRI" Group 0 Mode 0666 EndSection [IS@sarmax IS]$
Please report this bug to xfree86@xfree86.org including full details. XFree86 4.3.0 final freeze for minor bugfixes is on February 1st, and the people who maintain xkb should be made aware of all xkb related bugs before then in hopes they'll get fixed before 4.3.0. I'm currently spending most of my time fixing video drivers, so it is highly possible at the current state, I won't be able to personally look into this for quite some time.
I did not yet reported the bug as update to Phoebe (8.0.93) resolved it.
Thanks for the update. Closing as fixed in RAWHIDE