Following an old suggestion coming from Israel:
http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/archive...2003/2873.html
I launched this command
xprop -root -remove _XKB_RULES_NAMES
and my Italian keyboard resuscitate!
Now I can type àèìòù again, even if the arrow keys, the ins/del block
and alt-gr still don't work (a lesser annoyance).
I think this could be a starting point for somebody else to fix that
bloody evdev bug.

HTH

Cyrus (the /euphoric/ virus)

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cyrusthevirus wrote:
> Following an old suggestion coming from Israel:
> http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/archive...2003/2873.html
> I launched this command
> xprop -root -remove _XKB_RULES_NAMES
> and my Italian keyboard resuscitate!
> Now I can type àèìòù again, even if the arrow keys, the ins/del block
> and alt-gr still don't work (a lesser annoyance).
> I think this could be a starting point for somebody else to fix that
> bloody evdev bug.
>

Any progress on this? I have my JP106 keyboard working but without
arrow keys, insert/delete, home, page* it's pretty crippled.

AFAICT there are no errors anywhere; those keys just don't work.

I wonder if evdev changes the scancodes somehow....

--Yan

Il 01/02/2007 19:06, CptDondo dixit:


> Any progress on this?

What about this, Yan? ¹²³ä×È¡½¾¼¿
I'm writing another HOWTO about it.

> I have my JP106 keyboard working but without
> arrow keys, insert/delete, home, page* it's pretty crippled.

My problem was the same, until I had the idea to check every key with xev.
Oddly, on my IBM type M keyboard, 18 years old¹, arrows and other edit
keys have different keycodes from the standard /etc/X11/kbd/keyvodes/xfree86
So I made a copy of that file, using my own keycodes, and now it works
smoothly.

To launch the keyboard I use this bash script:

------------%< --------------- %< ------------------

#!/bin/bash

# reset _XKB_RULES_NAMES property to xfree86 - 8s is the string length
xprop -root -f _XKB_RULES_NAMES 8s -set _XKB_RULES_NAMES "xorg"
echo -e "\n------------\nxprop done\n\n";

# set xkb parameters:
setxkbmap -v 10 -keycodes "MyCodes" -types "default" -compat "default"
-symbols "MySymbols" -geometry "pc(pc102)"

echo -e "\n------------\nsetxbmap done\n\n";

# save xkb parameters for debug:
xmodmap -pm -pk > /tmp/MyCharlist.tmp

------------%< --------------- %< ------------------


> AFAICT there are no errors anywhere; those keys just don't work.

Frustrating, uh?

> I wonder if evdev changes the scancodes somehow....

Who knows? Maybe it is a side effect.

Have fun

Cyrus (the /UTF-8/ virus)


¹ just like the spam: wonderful eighteen...

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