[oe] xserver-kdrive 1.4 and USB keyboard

[Koen Kooi]

Cliff Brake wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Koen Kooi<k.kooi at student.utwente.nl>  wrote:
>> Cliff Brake wrote:
>>> Does anyone have this combination working yet?
>>>
>>> On my system, ctrl-alt-f1 does not work, and caps/num lock lights do
>>> not work when X is running.  Keyboard works fine at the console.
>> I suspect that's because kdrive 1.4 lacks a default keymap. Graeme provided
>> a really bare-bones one that makes X access keys (e.g. xkbd,
>> matchbox-keyboard). Making USB keyboards work properly proved to be too much
>> work, so I am now using full-blown Xorg on anything with a usb-keyboard.
>> Having said that, the A-z keys did work on beagle, the fact that left-mouse
>> button clicks produced a 'q' was the final straw (clock on window running
>> powertop - boom).
>> Something is very broken in kdrive, which might be due to people working on
>> it only care for tablets from a certain scandinavian company.
>
> Thanks.  Yes, you are correct.  I can get arrow keys, and enter to
> work, but not cap/num lock or Ctrl-Alt-F1.

In that case fixing the keymap would be the way to go. You'll need to 
poke the resident X exports on how to do that properly, though :)

regards,

Koen

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> Cliff
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