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Keyboard misdetected as “Evdev-managed keyboard”

Bug #102079 reported by Anders Kaseorg
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control-center (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Even though my xorg.conf has Option "XkbModel" "pc104", GNOME Keyboard Preferences detects my keyboard layout as “Evdev-managed keyboard”. If I change any of the Layout Options (thus causing GNOME to actually install the detected layout), several keys start giving the wrong keysyms. Things go back to normal if I manually select “Generic 104-key PC”.

(I’m on feisty amd64, current as of 2007-04-02.)

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Anders Kaseorg (andersk)
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug

Changed in control-center:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Low
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Sergey, do you know how the keyboard layout is selected?

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Sergey V. Udaltsov (sergey-udaltsov) wrote :

There is no automatic selection of the keyboard. The initial value is taken from xorg.conf. May be, cleaning gconf settings could help.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

what xorg value does it use to select the keyboard model?

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Sergey V. Udaltsov (sergey-udaltsov) wrote :

The logic IIRC is very simple:

Once xorg starts, it puts the value from xorg.conf into XKB_RULES_NAMES root window property.

Once gnome (gnome-settings-daemon) starts, it backs up XKB_RULES_NAMES into XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP and then checks gconf. If there is nothing in gconf, it uses the current value from XKB_RULES_NAMES (i.e. actually it is doing nothing). Otherwise, it changes the configuration using the values from gconf.

Once gnome-keyboard-properties capplet starts, is loads whatever configuration is present in gconf - or, if none, falls back to the original one, i.e. XKB_RULES_NAMES.

Does it make sense?

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you Sergey. The bug looks weird then, letting unconfirmed for now it's low importance and we get too many bugs at the moment to work on everything

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Do you still have the issue? Could you try on gutsy?

Changed in control-center:
status: New → Incomplete
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Closing this report for now, feel free to re open it if you can reproduce it with Gutsy Gibbon. thanks in advance.

Changed in control-center:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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