Bug 114756 – (modular) xorg-server 0.99.4-r2: Keyboard doesn't work in KDE

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Thomas Schlesinger 2005-12-07 08:00:51 UTC]

After upgrading from the previous xorg-server version to 0.99.4-r2, the  
keyboard doesn't work in KDE 3.5. In fluxbox, the keyboard does work. In the  
KDE login manager, too. But when I've logged in into a KDE session, the  
keyboard is dead. One exception: when I press the Ctrl-Key in Konqueror, I can  
see the expected reaction. The /var/log/messages doesn't show something 
suspectable. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge xorg-server 0.99.4-r2 & friends 
2. emerge kde 3.5 
3. login in KDE 
 
Actual Results:  
see Details  

Expected Results:  
The keyboard should work 

Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre11 
Portage 2.0.53 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r3, 
2.6.14-gentoo i686) 
================================================================= 
System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHz 
distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) 
[disabled] 
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5, 2.4.2 
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.15 
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-r1 
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.20-r1 
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r3 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" 
AUTOCLEAN="yes" 
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" 
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium-m -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" 
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" 
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" 
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" 
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium-m -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" 
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" 
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks prelink sandbox sfperms strict" 
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org 
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" 
LANG="de_DE" 
LC_ALL="en_US" 
LINGUAS="de" 
MAKEOPTS="-j2" 
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" 
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" 
PORTDIR="/usr/portage" 
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" 
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" 
USE="x86 X a52 acl acpi alsa apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 
cdr crypt cups curl divx4linux dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdread eds emboss encode 
esd exif expat fam fame ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif glut gmp gpm 
gstreamer gtk2 guile idn imagemagick imlib ipv6 irmc java jpeg junit kde 
kdepim kdexdeltas lcms libg++ libwww mad matroska mikmod mmx mmxext mng motif 
mp3 mpeg ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pda pdflib perl png 
python qt quicktime readline recode samba scanner sdl speex spell sqlite sse 
ssl subtitles svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts 
type1-fonts udev usb uselocales visualization vorbis xine xml2 xmms xv xvid 
zeroconf zlib linguas_de userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" 
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS

[Comment 1 Thomas Schlesinger 2005-12-07 08:01:52 UTC]

Created attachment 74233 [details]
My xorg.conf

[Comment 2 Thomas Schlesinger 2005-12-07 08:04:02 UTC]

Created attachment 74234 [details]
My Xorg.0.log

[Comment 3 Thomas Schlesinger 2005-12-07 08:20:27 UTC]

Update: I've found out, that the numeric pad keys are working in a KDE session. 

[Comment 4 Patrik Kullman 2005-12-07 22:28:48 UTC]

It's probably because of the changes in paths.

Try:
cd /usr/X11/lib
ln -s /usr/share/X11/XKeysymDB

And then restart your login manager and try again.

The same problem exists with XErrorDB and locales for some applications..
I'm looking for a better solution..

[Comment 5 Thomas Schlesinger 2005-12-08 08:30:54 UTC]

I've set the link from /usr/share/X11/XKeysymDB to /usr/X11R6/lib/XKeysymDB (I 
suppose, you mean X11R6/lib instead of X11/lib), but it doesn't solve the 
problem. 

[Comment 6 Thomas Schlesinger 2005-12-09 08:41:39 UTC]

Created attachment 74385 [details]
My kdm.log

[Comment 7 Thomas Schlesinger 2005-12-09 08:44:39 UTC]

Comment on attachment 74385 [details]
My kdm.log

(oh, wrong file)

[Comment 8 Thomas Schlesinger 2005-12-09 08:45:36 UTC]

Created attachment 74386 [details]
My kdm.log

[Comment 9 Patrik Kullman 2005-12-09 15:29:19 UTC]

No, I didn't mean /usr/X11R6/lib, but /usr/lib/X11/

Try linking it in there..

Sorry for the typo.

[Comment 10 Thomas Schlesinger 2005-12-10 01:52:24 UTC]

Yes, that did the trick. Thank you very much! 

[Comment 11 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2005-12-10 16:35:23 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 114835 ***