Keyboard layout constantly resets to another layout in oSUSE 11.3

Hey there.

I have installed opensuse 11.3 a couple of weeks ago in 2 computers and both suffer of the same problem.

In my asus laptop, i have a german keyboard. It is correctly recogniced as german keyboard by ev-dev, i guess. (ev-dev managed). But i need to write some spanisch symbols too, like accents (á é í ó ú) or ñ, which in a normal linux, they do work. For some reason, after rebooting, or after some time of having it running, the keyboard layout resets to an invalid setup, here accents get not over the letter (´a ´e ´i ´o ´u), so i have to select my layout again in the gnome control center.

With my other computer is more or less the same.
Its a desktop PC with an spanisch keyboard. But i thinck i picked German keyboard during installation and now it starts always with german with some sort of 5 secs delay when setting it. I have to pick spanisch and i always delete the german layout, but after some time having it running, it resets to the previusly deleted german layout.

The problem persists when i choose the correct keyboard manufacturer instead of ev-dev.

any idea?

Thanks
Diego

On 2010-08-09 21:06, epsilon da wrote:

> The problem persists when i choose the correct keyboard manufacturer
> instead of ev-dev.

Try select the keyboard in yast, system wide.


Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” GM (Elessar))

I just tried but the problem persists.

On 2010-08-09 23:06, epsilon da wrote:
>
> I just tried but the problem persists.

You tried, but what did you do?

Please explain.


Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” GM (Elessar))

You said:
“Try select the keyboard in yast, system wide.”

Thats what i tried.

I opened Yast, set the root password as usual, choose Keyboard Layout and press the ok button.

On 2010-08-10 04:36, epsilon da wrote:
>
> You said:
> “Try select the keyboard in yast, system wide.”
>
> Thats what i tried.
>
> I opened Yast, set the root password as usual, choose Keyboard Layout
> and press the ok button.

Ok :slight_smile:

Then, have a look at “/etc/sysconfig/keyboard”. There are two entries you should watch:

KEYTABLE=“es.map.gz”
YAST_KEYBOARD=“spanish,pc104”

After that, run “SuSEconfig” (watch the mixed case, I hope you don’t see it as bold fonts). You
should at least then log out and in, a reboot should not be necesary.


Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” GM (Elessar))

hi.

I checked this file on the laptop and it was right, but the problem persist.
I am writing a latex document with texmaker and sometimes i can write “ó” but in a couple of minutes t will write “´o”. I can inmediatelly but temporarily fix this by selecting my keyboard again and again and again, or wait and at some moment it will reset back to “ó”.

In my desktop, the file was not set as i explicitly configured it with YaST and/or gnome AFTER install.
So i edited it to es.map… and spanish,pc104 and next day after resetting, the problem persists, and i have the “Deu” selected on my task manager. Clicking on it i can change to “Spa” but this will not last much, until a short “freeze” (sometimes) where, i think, the wrong configuration is respawn.

I have to say that this is the only issue that i had with opensuse 11.3 everything else just works in perfect armony.

On 2010-08-11 18:06, epsilon da wrote:
>
> hi.
>
> I checked this file on the laptop and it was right, but the problem
> persist.
> I am writing a latex document with texmaker and sometimes i can write
> “ó” but in a couple of minutes t will write “´o”. I can inmediatelly but
> temporarily fix this by selecting my keyboard again and again and again,
> or wait and at some moment it will reset back to “ó”.
>
> In my desktop, the file was not set as i explicitly configured it with
> YaST and/or gnome AFTER install.
> So i edited it to es.map… and spanish,pc104 and next day after
> resetting, the problem persists, and i have the “Deu” selected on my
> task manager. Clicking on it i can change to “Spa” but this will not
> last much, until a short “freeze” (sometimes) where, i think, the wrong
> configuration is respawn.

I have no idea about that, I’m afraid.
You could try another desktop (kde, gnome, xfce…).

And then, report the problem in bugzilla.


Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” GM (Elessar))