Bug 6020

Summary:	xkb implementation is not xi-aware
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	Markus Bertheau <mbertheau>
Component:	Server/Input/XKB	Assignee:	Daniel Stone <daniel>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	high	CC:	warp-spam+fdo
Version:	6.8.2
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	6141

Description Markus Bertheau 2006-02-24 07:35:39 UTC

I have a notebook with an additional usb keyboard attached, that gives two
keyboards. xorg.conf:

...
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver          "kbd"
        Option          "CoreKeyboard"
        Option          "XkbRules"      "xorg"
        Option          "XkbModel"      "pc105"
        Option          "XkbLayout"     "de"
        Option          "XkbVariant"    "nodeadkeys"
EndSection
 
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "USB Keyboard"
        Driver          "kbd"
        Option          "Device" "/dev/input/event1"
        Option          "XkbRules"      "xorg"
        Option          "XkbModel"      "pc105"
        Option          "XkbLayout"     "fr"
EndSection
...
Section "ServerLayout"
...
        InputDevice     "USB Keyboard"
        InputDevice     "Generic Keyboard"
...
EndSection

I get the german layout on both keyboards. Expected french on the usb keyboard.

Comment 1 Zephaniah E. Hull 2006-02-27 21:53:00 UTC

This still happens on CVS head (modelar), and it is due to a design issue.

To my knowledge Daniel Stone has some plans with xkb and xi to hopefully solve
this (and a few other) issue, but it could take a little while.

Hopefully it won't take forever, but it is being worked on.

Comment 2 Daniel Stone 2006-03-01 09:17:51 UTC

nngh mandatory comment

Comment 3 Daniel Stone 2006-03-05 21:58:31 UTC

Comment 4 Daniel Stone 2006-03-26 06:11:05 UTC

zepheniah and I are currently planning to make Xi XKB-aware, rather than the
other way around.  (i.e., do all your device configuration in Xi.)

Comment 5 Daniel Stone 2006-11-01 19:41:58 UTC

fixed in 1.2.99.0

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