Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 19:52:51 +0200 From: Marek Holly <marko@exitcode.org> To: Vlad GURDIGA <gurdiga@gmail.com> Cc: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X.org 7.2 keyboard layout switching does not work Message-ID: <20070609175251.GA72974@d610.network.home> In-Reply-To: <da7069940706080038q718c0944q14daa371943b8f87@mail.gmail.com> References: <da7069940706080038q718c0944q14daa371943b8f87@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 10:38:53AM +0300, Vlad GURDIGA wrote: > Hello! > > After upgrading to Xorg 7.2 "by the book" (/usr/ports/UPDATING), I > could not switch my keyboard layouts as I did with the previous > version. Even more, I could not switch to text-mode console using > Ctrl-Alt-F1. > After I've regenerated a new xorg.conf using "Xorg -configure", I was > able to switch to text-mode console, but after adding the two lines > for keyboard layout switch (from my old xorg.conf): > > Option "XkbLayout" "us,ro" > Option "XKbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle" > > Ctrl-Alt-F1 stopped working and the keyboard layout switching did not > work. Google gave me some hints from the Gentoo documentation site > regarding the imposibility to switch to text-mode console, but the > solutions provided there did not work for me. > > Are there any substantial changes in the way that keyboard layout > switching works in X.org 7.2 vs. 6.9? > > # uname -a > FreeBSD kpax 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #2: Sat Jun 2 20:00:40 > EEST 2007 root@kpax:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Try to install xkeyboard-config-0.8 instead of 0.9 that is currently available in ports tree. http://exitcode.org/freebsd/xkeyboard-config-0.8.tar.gz Works for me as long as the problem with newest version will be resolved. -- Marek Holly marko@exitcode.org
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