Re: strange keyboard behaviour

On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 11:50:26 +0200, debian-user wrote:
Hello,

On my Asus L3400Tp I recently installed Etch in favor of Fedora 7, but
there seem to be some issues that did not appear in Fedora Core 6.

For instance:
If in 'Desktop|Preferences|Keyboard\Layout Options' I add the eurosign,
set the third level chooser, some keys start failing to work, unless I
press them very repeatedly. Like the Backspace, _, +, y, 3, f. But when
I 'unset' the choices I made for the eurosign etc., this problem is
(almost) gone. Only occasionally is it required to repeatedly press
those keys to get Etch to realise the particular key is being pressed.
How can I for instance add the eurosign to a key without getting this
problem?

Maybe you are lucky and AltGr + e will give you the eurosign with your
normal keyboard layout.

To diagnose the rest of your problems, please post the output of

setxkbmap -print
xmodmap

before and after you make the changes to the keyboard layout.

Also, although I chose the 'us keyboard' layout, type-over doesn't want
to work (as it did in Fedora). I'd really like to use the feature that
typing 'e gives an 'accented e' and so on. How can I get there?

Remove the XkbVariant "nodeadkeys" entry in the keyboard section of your
xorg.conf and/or (un)check the corresponding option in your DE's
keyboard configuration menu.

Also there is the power saving issue that Hibernate and Suspend don't
want to work (as it did in Fedora, so the problem is not with the laptop
and/or its BIOS), but I posted that already on the debian-laptop list.

Installing the "hibernate" package is normally a good start.
Nevertheless, you will probably have to try a few configuration options
before you find a combination that works. (The package comes with
well-documented example configurations.)

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