G3 ibook keyboard messed up

Im working on some ibooks for a school...one of them has a strange issue when you press the "t" key it starts typing [5tgb over and over again....
I tried swapping the keyboard out and that seemed to make it a little better but it still goes completly crazy....I tried an external keyboard and there are no problems, could this be a logic board issue??
any ideas?

Problem solved... me the n00b...
After reading the log in /var/dt/Xerrors more closely this time I found that it was trying to load module "Keyboard" for the device "Keyboard1" and was not able to find that module. The log was also suggesting that this module is deprecated and I should use "kbd" instead... Made the changes in xorg.conf and things are good now...

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[SOLVED] External keyboard OK, notebook keyboard messed up

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Re-installed without external keyboard.
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So, first post. I have no long experience with Linux, I tried Red Hat in the late 90's but switched back to Windows until this year. Anyway, to the problem.
I have an Asus UL30A, when using the notebook keyboard in xubuntu it worked just fine. Using the keyboard in the console it works just fine. It works in GDM but as soon as I boot into GNOME it mess up. The defenition of "messed up" is that some keys seems to have the wrong keycode mapped, most keys work as they should but a couple does not display what it suppose to display. y = 3, o = 4 and so on. Looking into the GNOME Keyboard layout preference you can actually see what they are mapped to, so I can for example see that i = numlock_2 and so on.
My external logitech keyboard works like a charm, I used it while installing the system so I am not sure if that messed something up. Anyway, I tried different layouts, keyboard models, tried installing xf86-input-keyboard drivers, looked into the xorg.conf.d folder but I am now clueless. I have not found anything related to this issue on the internet.
Any ideas?
Last edited by gyller (2010-08-21 15:57:01)

Hello, gyller; it looks like your installation with the USB keyboard has somewhat messed up your settings.
If I was having your problem, here's what I would do:
1) Check which keyboard options to use
First bootup the computer using the built-in keyboard only (no USB one plugged in), then have a look at /usr/share/X11/xkbd/rules/base.lst , where all the keyboard model ,layout, variant options are detailed, and choose which one is the more appropriate.
(Then I would set the keymap for the current Xorg session with: # setxkbmap se , and check how it's going on with that.)
2) Back up important Xorg files
I would back up /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d in a convenient easily reachable location.
3) Reconfigure Xorg in command line
Reboot the computer (again, without the USB keyboard) and configure Xorg in CLI, for the built-in keyboard to be taken as the default keyboard.
(Later, after having set it up properly, you would take care of the USB one).
As you're running Gnome, I suppose you're using GDM and not running in command line at boot.
To be able to boot in command line, you'll have to boot in runlevel 1 (you can't make xorg changes while you are running Xorg).
This can be achieve simply by adding the runlevel 1 to your kernel command line in Grub during bootup.
(Reference ; tested and working properly).
Boot your computer, select your Arch distro in Grub, press the e key to edit, get down and select the line where /vmlinuz26 is, and add a 1:
linux /vmlinuz26 ...root=/dev/sda3 ro 1 or kernel /vmlinuz26......root=/dev/sda3 ro 1
then press the b key to boot your Arch.
You will be in single-user mode and asked for your root password for maintenance.
Enter it and run # Xorg -configure
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Check here Step 3: Configure X
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Note that if you are in possession of a properly configured xorg.conf under another distribution and with the same Xorg version, you may easily copy it over to your current Arch system's /etc/X11/ directory.
Would that work with your Xubuntu xorg.conf?
Once it's done, log out of your root account (# exit) and as a normal user start your session.
4) Have the built-in keyboard, mouse and touchpad set to be working properly (Might take some time!)
For this, check:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … _detection
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Evdev
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg
it will need some customizations.
As you're using Gnome, you can install GPointingDeviceSettings from AUR.
It's a very handy way to set up mouse, touchpad, tapping, scrolling, wheel behaviors.
5) Reboot with the USB keyboard plugged in and have it work properly (Time-consuming too!)
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg_multiseat can give you some ideas about that.
There will be some more configuration work to do with xorg.conf and xorg.conf.d
PS: http://caulfield.info/emmet/2008/01/add … eyboa.html might interest you.
Last edited by oupsemma (2010-08-18 15:01:20)

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