Bug 290782 – x11-base/xorg-server: after update to 1.7.1 there are problems with keyboard layouts.

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Yaroslav Isakov 2009-10-27 17:45:05 UTC]

Hello, I installed xorg-server-1.7.1 (with all appropriate deps). After restart I found that there is only one keyboard layout, instead of two. I added 'input.xkb' style options in addition to 'input.x11_options' in hal, and switching layout is working. But gnome and 'setxkbmap -print' doesn't see any layouts besides US.

[Comment 1 Yaroslav Isakov 2009-10-27 17:50:29 UTC]

Created attachment 208445 [details]
HAL FDI file for keyboard layouts

[Comment 2 Rafał Mużyło 2009-10-27 18:41:32 UTC]

Haven't checked it, but first try changing type
of input.x11_options.XkbOptions to string,
as strlist was deprecated even in 1.5.

[Comment 3 Yaroslav Isakov 2009-10-27 19:50:00 UTC]

It doesn't help. Problem is that xorg doesn't see layouts. So changing XkbOption to string can't help with that.

[Comment 4 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2009-10-28 16:14:01 UTC]

Is the output of lshal correct? Could you attach it here?

Thanks

[Comment 5 Yaroslav Isakov 2009-10-28 17:17:16 UTC]

Yes, it's correct, and I didn't change it between xorg-server-1.6.x and xorg-server-1.7.1. Here it is:

udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_i8042_i8042_KBD_port_logicaldev_input'
  info.addons.singleton = {'hald-addon-input'} (string list)
  info.capabilities = {'input', 'input.keyboard', 'input.keypad', 'input.keys', 'button'} (string list)
  info.category = 'input'  (string)
  info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_i8042_i8042_KBD_port'  (string)
  info.product = 'AT Translated Set 2 keyboard'  (string)
  info.subsystem = 'input'  (string)
  info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_i8042_i8042_KBD_port_logicaldev_input'  (string)
  input.device = '/dev/input/event0'  (string)
  input.originating_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_i8042_i8042_KBD_port'  (string)
  input.product = 'AT Translated Set 2 keyboard'  (string)
  input.x11_driver = 'evdev'  (string)
  input.x11_options.XkbLayout = 'us,ru'  (string)
  input.x11_options.XkbOptions = 'grp:caps_toggle,grp_led:scroll,erminate:ctrl_alt_bksp'  (string)
  input.x11_options.XkbVariant = ',winkeys'  (string)
  input.xkb.layout = 'us,ru'  (string)
  input.xkb.model = 'evdev'  (string)
  input.xkb.options = 'grp:caps_toggle,grp_led:scroll,erminate:ctrl_alt_bksp'  (string)
  input.xkb.rules = 'base'  (string)
  input.xkb.variant = ',winkeys'  (string)
  linux.device_file = '/dev/input/event0'  (string)
  linux.hotplug_type = 2  (0x2)  (int)
  linux.subsystem = 'input'  (string)
  linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input0/event0'  (string)

[Comment 6 Yaroslav Isakov 2009-10-28 17:21:05 UTC]

Oops, "erminate" here is because of typo in .fdi file, when I change type from strlist to string.

[Comment 7 Yaroslav Isakov 2009-10-28 17:21:51 UTC]

Changing back to 'terminate' didn't help, either

[Comment 8 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2009-10-28 17:43:45 UTC]

Could you attach your Xorg.0.log please?

Thanks

[Comment 9 Yaroslav Isakov 2009-10-28 17:52:01 UTC]

Created attachment 208561 [details]
Xorg.0.log

[Comment 10 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2009-10-29 00:32:31 UTC]

Sorry, I'm out of ideas, please file a bug upstream [1] and paste the URL here so I can track the issue.

Thanks

[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/ => "xorg" product

[Comment 11 Yury Zhuravlev 2009-11-07 20:30:18 UTC]

Created attachment 209575 [details]
Xorg.0.log and one reconnect keaboard (last lines).

I have bug too.
All work if I reconnect my usb keyboard. And some strange in keyboard detect.

[Comment 12 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2009-11-07 23:09:50 UTC]

I'm really out of ideas, could either of you open a bug upstream [1] and paste the URL here?

Thanks

[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/

[Comment 13 Yaroslav Isakov 2009-11-07 23:42:01 UTC]

I opened the bug, but they didn't see it...
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24791

[Comment 14 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2009-11-08 08:46:47 UTC]

Reopening

[Comment 15 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2009-11-08 08:47:11 UTC]

Let's track the bug upstream directly.

Thanks

[Comment 16 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2009-11-08 08:49:11 UTC]

Oh hold on, could you switch the "strlist" to "string" in your fdi file?

Thanks

[Comment 17 Yaroslav Isakov 2009-11-08 09:03:39 UTC]

Please see comments #2 and #3

[Comment 18 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2009-11-08 09:32:51 UTC]

Could you attach the full output of lshal?

Thanks

[Comment 19 Yaroslav Isakov 2009-11-08 10:18:12 UTC]

Created attachment 209613 [details]
lshal output

[Comment 20 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2009-11-08 10:58:38 UTC]

Ok, so everything looks ok to me. Could you try going to Gnome's keyboard configuration applet and click on the "reset" button that's in one of the tabs?

Log out and then log back in.

Oh and does the layout switching work in GDM or in a simpler desktop like fluxbox?

Thanks

[Comment 21 Yaroslav Isakov 2009-11-14 18:31:54 UTC]

Reset button in gnome keyboard config reset layout to only one - US layout. Also I restart Xorg with XSESSION=Xsession, and in xterm I also got one layout

[Comment 22 Rafał Mużyło 2009-11-17 07:41:25 UTC]

Just a minor note: there doesn't seem to be
a 'winkeys' variant of 'ru' layout.
Such variant exist for 'by', 'ro' and 'ua'
layouts - see if it works with a proper variant.

Oh, and set the file type of your fdi file in the
upstream bug to text/plain (even if it happens to be INVALID).

[Comment 23 Yaroslav Isakov 2009-11-17 16:29:25 UTC]

ru(winkeys) is in symbols/ru file (first section). Anyway, I delete appropriate line in FDI file, and after restarting server, found that problem still here.
PS. Thanks for tip, I changed mime type