[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#524098: xserver-xorg: dependency on console-setup broke keyboard settings

[Valery V. Vorotyntsev]

> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 00:34:33 +0300, Valery V. Vorotyntsev wrote:
>
>> I've upgraded xserver-xorg (I run `testing'). It came with new dependencies
>> (hal, console-setup) and made my keyboard hardly usable. I was lucky enough
>> to find Gabor's bug report (thanks, Gabor!). I've commented out contents of
>> /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/debian-x11-keymap.fdi and restarted hal
>> and gdm; now my keyboard is working properly.
>>
>> Still, something needs to be done to this problem. I am sure there are more
>> frustrated users; xorg 1:7.4+4 hit `testing' just two days ago.


On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:43:14 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:

> I'm sure there also are more helpful ones, thankfully.  You don't say
> anything about what the problem actually is.


Oh, sorry.

Win, Alt_R, and Right [arrow] were gone (with xev returning
``keysym 0x0, NoSymbol'' for them), Left was ``remapped'' to
Alt_R, and Up became Print. There were some other broken
keys that I have forgotten.

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vvv