[PLUG] Keyboard stops working in X under RH 8

Paul Heinlein heinlein at attbi.com
Mon Oct 7 21:29:07 UTC 2002


On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Matt Alexander wrote:

> > * what video chipset are you running?
> 
> i815, although RedHat thinks it's an ATI Rage 128.

<grumble>
  bleepin' Intel, altering chipsets every three weeks whether
  they need it or not. i8<week number of year here>. feh.
</grumble>

> Xconfigurator is apparently no longer around, so I used the RedHat
> Display tool...

By 'RedHat Display tool,' do you mean /usr/bin/redhat-config-xfree86?
That seems to be the blest successor to Xconfigurator.

If you've got your hand on all the relevant specs for your monitor and 
video subsystem, you can always try the canonical XFree86 tool: 
/usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config.

> I did a "rmmod r128" and then "insmod i810", but it still didn't
> work.

That's a different set of modules entirely. The Linux frame buffer 
device is a stab at abstracting graphics hardware in order to allow 
Linux graphics software to run on a wider variety of platforms. IOW, 
that's kernel code, not XFree86 stuff.

M understanding is that there are relatively few occasions when you'd
need the fb abstraction on x86 hardware.

> > * is gpm running?
> 
> No.

Drats. That's the easy answer :-)

> Here's the original XF86Config, before I ran the RedHat Display tool:
>
> Section "InputDevice"
        [snip]
> 	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
> 	Driver      "keyboard"
> 	Option	    "XkbModel" "pc105"#
> 	Option	    "XkbRules" "xfree86"
> 	Option	    "XkbLayout" "us"	#Option	"XkbVariant"	""
> EndSection

The Xkb* options are not, as far as I can tell, very well documented, 
but this seems pretty sane to me.

--Paul Heinlein <heinlein at attbi.com>





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