The return of keyboard psychedelia

Jonathan Corbet lwn-ft at lwn.net
Thu Mar 20 17:12:29 UTC 2008


Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:

> Due to the massive amount of bugs with evdev keyboard support, we've
> rolled back that change so that we should now do pc105 keyboards by
> default.  However, gnome may not have noticed for you.  Check your
> keyboard preferences in gnome and make sure it's not evdev anymore.

Everything in GNOME and xorg.conf says pc105 - nary an evdev to be found.
 
> There is another bug where devices that report to be both a
> keyboard /and/ a mouse may wind up getting "evdeved" for all keyboards
> so be aware of that.

That will be it - it's a Logitech DiNovo thing with a built-in track
pad.  Interestingly, the track pad works now - it didn't a couple of
weeks ago.  Is there a workaround for this one?

Thanks,

jon




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