So how *do* I get my arrow keys back?

[Adam Huffman]

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 10:29 PM, Jonathan Corbet <lwn-ft at lwn.net> wrote:
> So I'm feeling pretty dumb, like I should be able to figure this out by
>  myself, but...  The X keyboard bug:
>
>         https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=434669
>
>  is said to be fixed and all is well.  But there's clearly quite a few of
>  us who still experience extreme paranormal phenomena whenever we try to
>  use obscure keys like "up arrow" or "page down".  The bug report is full
>  of helpful comments like:
>
>         As already written up-arrow = PrintScreen is new xorg's way of
>         telling you you should configure evdev+evdev instead of
>         kbd+pc105,jp106 or whatever
>
>  There's also a pointer to this message:
>
>         https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-February/msg02131.html
>
>  which features lots of delightful XML stuff.
>
>  Me, I'm a kernel-oriented guy, so I find the idea of mucking around with
>  all that XML a little frightening.  Surely we don't all have to do that
>  just to make our plain old keyboards - which always worked - work again?
>
>  </whine>
>
>  Thanks,
>
>  jon
>

I'll go back to whining about the keyboard when I can get X running at all...