problem with xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.7.99.901.8 and system-setup-keyboard

[chepioq]

First excuse my english, but for me it is a problem complicate to explain in english.
There is an update of xorg-x11-server to xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.7.99.901.8, and that also install by dependency system-setup-keyboard.
When I reboot my keyboard is not in french.
I do "system-config-keyboard" in root an I have my keyboard in french.
I reboot and I have a black screen, with error, I don't note this, but it is about the xorg-x11-server is not compatible with nvidia-driver (error ABI)
I look my xorg.conf and I see the " Option "IgnoreABI" "true"" line was removed.
I add this line, in my xorg.conf, I reboot, and I have not my keyboard in french...
Where is the error?
In xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.7.99.901.8 or in system-setup-keyboard ?
Have you same issues?

[karo1170]

Just an idea:
Did you check the /var/log/Xorg.0.log for any error messages, related to that topic?

Cordialement!

[BugRocks1]

Good question, I don't have problems with the keyboard but I do get error messages saying it will disable the mouse and keyboard settings and use another one.

It didn't bother me enough yet to look why it is doing what it does.

(WW) AllowEmptyInput is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or 'vmmouse' will be disabled.
(WW) Disabling Keyboard0
(WW) Disabling Mouse0

And after that it enables another thing, so I guess it could be that the gnome, xorg server and udev are mixing things up a little.

/home/[user]/.gconf/desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd/gconf.xml

Is where I suppose the configuration of the keyboard layout in gnome is, try checking to see if there is a file being created.

It should look like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<gconf>
<entry name="options" mtime="1264303889" type="list" ltype="string">
<li type="string">
<stringvalue>Compose key compose:menu</stringvalue>
</li>
</entry>
<entry name="layouts" mtime="1264209326" type="list" ltype="string">
<li type="string">
<stringvalue>jp</stringvalue>
</li>
</entry>
</gconf>

ps: If the windows manager is overriding udev, xorg or vice versa probably is a bug and should be reported.

---------- Post added at 02:37 PM CST ---------- Previous post was at 02:21 PM CST ----------

List all input devices

lshal

Source:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Input_device_configuration

[chepioq]

xorg.0.log (just the errors, file is too long for forum...)


record: RECORD extension enabled at configure time.
record: This extension is known to be broken, disabling extension now..
record: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20500
(II) config/hal: Adding input device AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
(II) LoadModule: "evdev"
(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so
(II) Module evdev: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.7.99.3, module version = 2.3.0
Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 9.0
(EE) module ABI major version (9) doesn't match the server's version (7)
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) Unloading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so
(EE) Failed to load module "evdev" (module requirement mismatch, 0)
(EE) No input driver matching `evdev'
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (15)
(II) config/hal: Adding input device Macintosh mouse button emulation
(II) LoadModule: "evdev"
(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so
(II) Module evdev: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.7.99.3, module version = 2.3.0
Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 9.0
(EE) module ABI major version (9) doesn't match the server's version (7)
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) Unloading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so
(EE) Failed to load module "evdev" (module requirement mismatch, 0)
(EE) No input driver matching `evdev'
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (15)
(II) config/hal: Adding input device HP Laser Mobile Mouse
(II) LoadModule: "evdev"
(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so
(II) Module evdev: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.7.99.3, module version = 2.3.0
Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 9.0
(EE) module ABI major version (9) doesn't match the server's version (7)
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) Unloading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so
(EE) Failed to load module "evdev" (module requirement mismatch, 0)
(EE) No input driver matching `evdev'
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (15)
(II) config/hal: Adding input device Chicony USB 2.0 Camera
(II) LoadModule: "evdev"
(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so
(II) Module evdev: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.7.99.3, module version = 2.3.0
Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 9.0
(EE) module ABI major version (9) doesn't match the server's version (7)
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) Unloading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so
(EE) Failed to load module "evdev" (module requirement mismatch, 0)
(EE) No input driver matching `evdev'
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (15)
(II) config/hal: Adding input device Power Button
(II) LoadModule: "evdev"
(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so
(II) Module evdev: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.7.99.3, module version = 2.3.0
Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 9.0
(EE) module ABI major version (9) doesn't match the server's version (7)
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) Unloading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so
(EE) Failed to load module "evdev" (module requirement mismatch, 0)
(EE) No input driver matching `evdev'
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (15)
(II) config/hal: Adding input device Video Bus
(II) LoadModule: "evdev"
(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so
(II) Module evdev: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.7.99.3, module version = 2.3.0
Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 9.0
(EE) module ABI major version (9) doesn't match the server's version (7)
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) Unloading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so
(EE) Failed to load module "evdev" (module requirement mismatch, 0)
(EE) No input driver matching `evdev'
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (15)
(II) config/hal: Adding input device Power Button
(II) LoadModule: "evdev"
(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so
(II) Module evdev: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.7.99.3, module version = 2.3.0
Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 9.0
(EE) module ABI major version (9) doesn't match the server's version (7)
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) Unloading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so
(EE) Failed to load module "evdev" (module requirement mismatch, 0)
(EE) No input driver matching `evdev'
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (15)


@BugRocks1
I don't use gnome but Kde

To solve problem I downgrade to xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.7.3-7.fc13.x86_64.
That remove system-setup-keyboard and install fedora-setup-keyboard

[marvin_ita]

I had the same problem and reported a bug (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=569882) to bugzilla.

With the latest updates of
system-setup-keyboard-0.8.1.fc13.x86_64
xkeyboard-config-1.8.2.fc13.noarch
xorg-x11-apps-7.4.10.fc13.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-wacom-0.10.4.4.fc13.x86_64
xorg-x11-server-utils-7.4.15.fc13.x86_64
xorg-x11-xdm-1:1.1.6.16.fc13.x86_64

available in updates-testing seems to be resolved. Now when I reboot the keyboard layout is no more always in english.

Mattia

[chepioq]

I install the latest update from koji system-setup-keyboard-0.8.2, with xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.7.99.901.8, but I have same problem in my first post....
Any ideas?

[marvin_ita]

Did you installed also the other updates I mentioned? Especially xkeyboard-config-1.8.2

[chepioq]

I also installed xkeyboard-config-1.8.2... and the other update...

[BugRocks1]

From 2007(I think this won't help you because of the ABI error):

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-hardware-18/cannot-change-keyboard-layout-527347/?

Now to see errors(EE) and warnings(WW) you can use the command:

grep "EE\|WW" /var/log/Xorg.0.log

(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(WW) AllowEmptyInput is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or 'vmmouse' will be disabled.
(WW) Disabling Keyboard0
(WW) Disabling Mouse0
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(WW) NVIDIA(0): Option "PreferredMode" is not used
(WW) NVIDIA(0): Option "AddARGBVisuals" is not used

About the:
module ABI major version (9) doesn't match the server's version (7)

Some work arounds from the past.
http://forum.tuxx-home.at/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=78

This probably is a bug and should be reported:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=431176

---------- Post added at 12:45 PM CST ---------- Previous post was at 12:36 PM CST ----------

udev is not loading and that is probably the cause of your keyboard problems.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Input_device_configuration

You could try editing the configuration files for the KDE to see if it sticks because there is a chance that because udev is not functional KDE doesn't update the config files maybe I'm guessing here.

From what I can tell probably you could find the config files for KDE in

/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals

Since I don't have KDE installed I can't search for that sorry.

---------- Post added at 01:14 PM CST ---------- Previous post was at 12:45 PM CST ----------

Tracing HAL problems:

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/HalTraces

Key information to include

Apart from information about what is wrong, a bug report against hal should include

1.

Traces from the hal daemon run as root like this: with hal <= 0.5.4: hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes, with hal >= 0.5.5: hald --daemon=yes --verbose=yes --use-syslog. Depending on your settings (or you distribution) you should maybe add the option --retain-privileges. In you need to hotplug devices, please wait until the line "Device probing is complete" have been printed - that makes it easier to read the output.
2.

/var/log/messages (or other appropriate syslog file) snippet from around the time when the hal daemon was running (e.g. just before till just after)
3.

lshal output, if applicable (e.g. if the hal daemon didn't crash)
4.

If the bug concerns storage devices and missing fstab entries, the contents of /etc/fstab just before the haldaemon ran, just after probing and just after you saw the bug.
5.

If the hal daemon crashes please obtain a stack trace - see this page on how to do that.
6.

Please state your OS, and the version of hal, udev and hotplug and kernel. If your OS use PolicyKit and/or ConsoleKit state also the versions of these packages.

Also use your common sense; there is no need to include a file if it doesn't contain useful information to resolve the bug.

Desktop and hardware configuration(old but with some interesting information)
http://www.redhat.com/magazine/003jan05/features/hal/