[solved] A little help with non-us keyboard

Question

I installed xorg-server from testing a while ago, but I did so without installing input-xf86-evdev. Everything worked fine until I upgraded it from 1.5.2 to 1.5.3 (both from testing) and evdev was installed as a dependency.
Apparently, evdev doesn't read /etc/X11/xorg.conf, as it ignores my Keyboard section. So I set up my keyboard manually, using setxkbmap:
setxkbmap -rules xorg -layout br -variant abnt2
For comparing, this is my Keyboard section in xorg.conf:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "abnt2"
Option "XkbLayout" "br"
Option "XkbVariant" "abnt2"
EndSection
Almost all keys are working correctly, except two. I also tried to pass the -model argument to setxkbmap, but then the keyboard wouldn't work.
setxkbmap -rules xorg -model abnt2 -layout br -variant abnt2
Besides setting the two keys manually with xmodmap, is there another option?
TIA
Last edited by andre.ramaciotti (2008-11-16 15:30:32)

Answer 1

i added
Section "ServerFlags"
    Option         "AutoAddDevices" "false"
EndSection
to my xorg.conf to skip hal autodetection/hotplugging/whatever ...
Otherwise you'd probably have to try your hand at some hal xml files ( /etc/hal/fdi/policy/... )