From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 8 05:05:07 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16695106564A for ; Fri, 8 May 2009 05:05:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from services.ipt.ru (services.ipt.ru [194.62.233.110]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C657C8FC12 for ; Fri, 8 May 2009 05:05:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from bb.ipt.ru ([194.62.233.89]) by services.ipt.ru with esmtp (Exim 4.54 (FreeBSD)) id 1M2IGf-0004iA-2z; Fri, 08 May 2009 09:05:05 +0400 To: Mike Clarke References: <200905072343.46922.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> From: Boris Samorodov Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 09:05:05 +0400 In-Reply-To: <200905072343.46922.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> (Mike Clarke's message of "Thu\, 7 May 2009 23\:43\:46 +0100") Message-ID: <69401662@bb.ipt.ru> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems after upgrading to xorg-7.4_1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 05:05:07 -0000 On Thu, 7 May 2009 23:43:46 +0100 Mike Clarke wrote: > The second problem is that when I revert to the nv driver X treats my UK > keyboard as a US one, even though it functions correctly as a UK > keyboard in console mode before starting X. > The original config file created by "X -configure" didn't detect my > keyboard type and generated the following keyboard section: > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Keyboard0" > Driver "kbd" > EndSection > Then I added the following lines from my previous config file: > Option "XkbRules" "xorg" > Option "XkbModel" "pc105" > Option "XkbLayout" "gb" New xorg uses hal by default. You have two options: either use hal [1] (i.e. start dbus and hald while booting) or not use it (then you should tweak xorg.conf). Either way please read recent freebsd-x11@ mail list archieves to understand what's up and what to do. [1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2009-April/008185.html WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD Committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve