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Date:      Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:39:11 +0200
From:      Marek Holly <marko@exitcode.org>
To:        martinko <gamato@users.sf.net>
Cc:        freebsd-x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: X.org 7.2 keyboard layout switching does not work
Message-ID:  <20070611193911.GA11141@d610.network.home>
In-Reply-To: <f4jquo$j49$1@sea.gmane.org>
References:  <da7069940706101110v6040f8ffn459eccd6e6d8948b@mail.gmail.com> <f4jquo$j49$1@sea.gmane.org>

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On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 05:49:44PM +0200, martinko wrote:
>  Vlad GURDIGA wrote:
> > Hello!
> > [There is no answer from freebsd-questions, so I repost here]
> > 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
> 
>  Hallo,
> 
>  Switching to console does not work here in 7.2, too. :-/
> 
>  My xorg.conf looks like this (it worked in 6.9):
> 
>          Option      "XkbLayout" "us,sk(qwerty)"
>          Option      "XkbOptions" "grp:shifts_toggle,grp_led:scroll"
> 
>  Any suggestions please ??
> 
>  Cheers,
> 

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Marek Holly 
marko@exitcode.org



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