Hi,

Thanks very much, this completely fixed it!

cheers

bruce

On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 08:43:25AM -0500, Michael Lorenz wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> > Oddly enough though the keyboard isn't quite right.  Only the down
> > arrow sends something recognized as down arrow.  The up arror, for
> > example, sends an '='.
> 
> In 3.0 use something like this:
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "Keyboard0"
>         Driver      "kbd"
>         Option  "XkbRules" "xfree86"
>         Option  "XkbModel" "pc105"
>         Option  "XkbLayout" "us"
>         Option      "Protocol" "wskbd"
>         Option      "Device" "/dev/wskbd0"
> EndSection
> 
> Yes, it's a blatant lie but XFree translates everything to some PCish
> set of scancodes anyway before doing any further processing. This should
> make most keys work without any xmodmap stunts ( and "XkbLayout" "de"
> should Just Work )
> 
> The point is - there are two keyboard drivers in XFree - 'keyboard' and
> 'kbd'. The former is a horrible mess that only works properly with
> PS/2-ish keyboards, the latter is a module that works just fine with
> USB, Sun and ADB keyboards but has problems with PS/2 ones ( apparently
> some of the scancode mangling done in 'keyboard' doesn't work in 'kbd' -
> didn't have time to investigate further yet )
> The error you describe sounds like you're either using 'keyboard' or
> some outdated xmodmap hack.
> 
> have fun
> Michael



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