keyboard layout broken if restart without usb keyboard
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xkeyboard-config (Ubuntu) |
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Hi, I'm using a macbook pro santa rosa 15", azerty keyboard but with dvorak layout.
* At work i have an external monitor (vga, attached to the nvidia card) and external mac azerty keyboard attached through usb (alhough i always want to type in dvorak no matter the keyboard)
* At home i use the laptop without extra screen or keyboard.
At work all is fine, my keyboard works great (and in dvorak).
But at home - without the usb keyboard - the login screen is in dvorak, but after logging in the keyboard layout is really weird (and not just azerty or querty) : most of the buttons don't even do anything, and buttons like h and t (in dvorak, j and k in azerty) produce characters like 2 and 1 .
This is like this for a few days : broken at home , at work no problem at all. Yesterday i tried selecting 'gnome session' and 'failsafe gnome' instead of the default session but got exactly the same behavior. At some point I even got an error message asking me to report some things but I could'nt type anything so....
So today, at work again I boot again with usb keyboard and I get "Error activating XKB configuration.", asking me to post the output of 2 commands (see below)
Info :
ubuntu hardy (apart from maybe 30 hours, containg all latest updates (with default options, no backports, hardy-proposed etc)
dieter@
Description: Ubuntu hardy (development branch)
Release: 8.04
Xorg 10400090
dieter@
_XKB_RULES_
_XKB_RULES_
dieter@
layouts = [us dvorak,be iso-alternate]
model = macbook79
options = [lv3 lv3:ralt_switch,grp grp:alts_toggle]
overrideSettings = true
[lspci]
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub [8086:2a00] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Apple Computer Inc. Device [106b:00a0]
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8600M GT [10de:0407] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Apple Computer Inc. Device [106b:00a0]
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To clarify, the error message i got first at home was the same one i got the next day at work.
Also, trying different sessions (gnome, gnome failsafe) instead of the default one seemed to start triggering the xkb error on every boot, even though the problem existed already for a week or so.
I update every day and the problem is still there btw.
Now, at home, I attached a compaq usb keyboard and the keyboard works fine ( for some reason I didn't even get an xkb error message, even though i get them at work with the mac usb keyboard)