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Hello,

I have just installed antix m7-2 with Fluxbox, on a dell inspiron 4000 800mhz laptop with a swiss-french keyboard. My hardware has been well recognized execept for the keyboard. I edited the xorg.conf file and changed the XkbLayout option to fr_CH-latin1. This layout seems to be the right choice but I still have a few keys that do not respond at all : Alt Gr ; è ; à and a few others. The keys seem not to have registered. I have tried various xkbModel options such as pc101 ; pc102 ; pc104 ; dell ; laptop, but this doesn't seem to have an influence on my problem.

Before installing antix I was running Simply Mepis 7 and everything worked well.
As antix benefits of the same hardware identification tools there must be a way to define my keyboard. As I wrote changing my XbkModel in xorg.conf dose not have any incidence on my system...

Thank you in advance for any help you could think of.

To confirm if the keys are actually being seen or not open a terminal and type xev. You should get a small window open and when you press a key some info should appear. What your looking for is the key number.

Thank you very much for replying Eriefisher.



After typing the xev command in terminal I get the following issue when I type a "q" :



KeyRelease event, serial 32, synthetic NO, window 0x1600001,

root 0x46, subw 0x0, time 2244885, (-897,130), root:(206,157),

state 0x0, keycode 24 (keysym 0x71, q), same_screen YES,

XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (71) "q"

XFilterEvent returns: False



and the following when I type a "à" :



KeyRelease event, serial 32, synthetic NO, window 0x1000001,

root 0x46, subw 0x0, time 2435666, (-603,437), root:(500,464),

state 0x0, keycode 48 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES,

XLookupString gives 0 bytes:

XFilterEvent returns: False



I guess the second issue recognized the key : keycode 48, but has no symbol linked to it.

Dose this confirm that the entries for my keyboard in Xorg.conf are false ?



Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Keyboard0"

Driver "keyboard"

Option "CoreKeyboard"

Option "XkbModel" "pc102"

Option "XkbLayout" "fr_CH-latin1"

Option "XKbOptions" ""

EndSection



The computer is a Dell inspiron 4000 laptop.

Well it looks like the key is seen but has no function. I would have to do some reading about attaching a symbol as it's been a while. It looks as though you should be able to get it to work.

I would be very great full to be able to configure my keyboard. I find Antix very surprising it has given a second youth to my Dell Pentium III and would be sad to have to abandon it.
I hope though that the reading won't be too time consuming for you.

I just booted with the nogui cheat and created a text file with nano. With X not running my keyboard works perfectly well.

Can that help ?

anticapitalista wrote:Maybe this from Gentoo will help.

http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Speak_Your_Language

For xorg it suggests something other than what you have.

Fantastic ! All my key are recognized... Thank you Anticapitalista !

Here is my new Xorg.conf entry for the keyboard :

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
Option "XkbLayout" "ch"
Option "XKbVariant" "fr" # French
EndSection

From now on I can really say Antix is Magix !

I am going to post this issue on Mepislovers Forum.

Is there anything the folks over at Gentoo haven't figured out? Great resource. Nice catch Anti!

One of these days I will have to load Gentoo. I tried Sabayon once and it was real nice KDE/compiz out of the box with video drivers. Someone is working hard.