Hi, I recently built a new laptop disk image using the 2006.0 install stage3, moved across my old /etc/make.conf and /etc/portage files to ensure that I had the same build as my previous disk image. On my previous disk image I'd installed modular X, and so during the install only the relevant packages got installed. Now since this was a fresh install rather than an upgrade, portage chose xkeyboard-config over xkbdata. Everything seemed ok, except that upon pressing any modifier key after start-up the scrolllock led would light. Pressing scroll lock turned it off until either num-lock or capslock were used. When both the numlock and capslock leds were off, the scrolllock led would like, when either went back on, it would turn off. I found mentions of this in the modular X annoyances threads on the forums (part 1 pages 36 and 37, and part 2 page 1). I attempted reinstalls of xkeyboard-config and clearing out /usr/share/X11/xkb as suggested on the threads, but neither of these worked. I decided instead to revert to xkbdata and the scroll lock issue vanished. I'm using the pc105-gb keyboard layout and have loadkeys uk for the console. I realise this may seem like a small problem, but it's quite a distracting one. Also there have been reports that programs which rely on scrolllock (such as synergy) fail because the scolllock function no longer works. Any help with the situation would be appreicated and I'd be happy to run any tests anyone may have. Thanks! Portage 2.1_pre5-r4 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.15-gentoo-r7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r7 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1400MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre16 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-mtune=pentium4 -march=pentium4 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-mtune=pentium4 -march=pentium4 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache confcache cvs distlocks parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/overlays/shc-tools /usr/local/overlays/personal /usr/local/overlays/gnome-experimental" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 GAPING_SECURITY_HOLE X acl acpi alsa apache2 asf avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth boundschecking browserplugin bzip2 cairo ccache cdr crypt cups dba dbus dlloader dri dvb dvd dvi emboss encode ethereal firefox foomaticdb gd gdbm gif gimpprint glitz gnome gnuplot gps graphviz gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal hardened ipv6 java john jpeg ldap ldapsam libg++ libnotify libwww mad madwifi mikmod mmx mng mp3 mpeg mscash mssql mysql nautilus ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ntlm ogg opengl pam pcmcia pcre pdflib pic png postgres python quicktime readline sasl sdl session slp smux snmp sox spell sse sse2 ssl svg svn-mirror syslog tcpd theora truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb v4l2 vorbis win32codecs winbind xml xml2 xv xvid zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_evdev input_devices_synaptics kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_ati" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
Post the relevant snip of the keyboard configuration, we can't guess.
Ok, so as mentioned my settings are gb layout on pc105 model, but if you'd like the specific xorg.conf keyboard section, please find it below: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "InternalKeyboard" Driver "kbd" Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "gb" EndSection If there's any further information I can provide, or tests I can run to check/verify things, please let me know. Thanks...
This is a known issue upstream. I recommend reading through the bug I'm putting in the URL field and seeing if you can help there. As I will soon note in the upstream bug, it appears that the problem area may have already been identified. If you want to fiddle with it, that will be a good place to start.
