control modifier gets lost in hardy

This is becoming quite critical for me. Can anyone at least confirm this bug?

i can confirm this bug

all the keyboard modifiers get randomly lost - ctrl, shift, caps... etc

now i can only type on lower case ....... exclamation mark, exclamation mark, exclamation mark

this is quite critical for me too

I can confirm this bug too.
with this bug, the whole system nearly unusable..........

Please attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file.

Thanks Bryce, mine is attached.

I just discovered this:

% setxkbmap -model microsoftelite

and so far, this seems to have alleviated the problem. Unless I respond with an update, you can consider this issue closed.

Thanks, treating as closed.

Hi Bryce,

One followup. I put the following in my xorg.conf file but this does not seem to fix the problem on reboot. I still have to manually issue the setxkbmap command for this to take effect. Any ideas?

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier "Keyboard0"
    Driver "keyboard"
    Option "XkbModel" "microsoftelite"
EndSection

There are actually several different settings for keyboards, and I wonder if perhaps with setxkbmap it attempts to fill in the missing values for you, whereas if setting in xorg.conf if you have to specify them explicitly?

To debug it further, try using `setxkbmap -print` to determine the keycodes, geometry, etc. and then set them accordingly in xorg.conf using the Xkb settings (see man kbd).

If that doesn't work, then please feel free to reopen this bug and update the description appropriately, and we can take a deeper look.

Hi Bryce,

Sorry for being an idiot, but I'm not entirely clear (and man kbd doesn't really help) on how to translate setxkbmap -print to xorg.conf settings. Here's the output:

% setxkbmap -print
xkb_keymap {
 xkb_keycodes { include "xfree86+aliases(qwerty)" };
 xkb_types { include "complete" };
 xkb_compat { include "complete" };
 xkb_symbols { include "pc+us+ctrl(swapcaps)" };
 xkb_geometry { include "microsoft(elite)" };
};

and my current xorg.conf excerpt:

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier "Keyboard0"
    Driver "keyboard"
    Option "XkbModel" "microsoftelite"
EndSection

Thanks for your help!