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  1. Bug #548891
  2. Comment #57

Comment 57 for bug 548891

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Re: [Bug 548891] Re: keyboard input broken due to invalid "SKIP" keyboard model

Hello Chris,

Chris Cheney [2010-04-27 21:20 -0000]:
> XKBMODEL="SKIP"
> XKBLAYOUT="us"
> XKBVARIANT="U.S. English"

Hm, this is also an invalid variant. Now that you mention it, a lot of
other reporters also has this, so I suppose it's again a bug in the
vmware setup script. However, comment 8 has an empty variant.

So my current working theory is that it previously choked on both an
invalid model and an invalid variant, and now the invalid model
doesn't hurt any more.

I tested your configuration and can perfectly reproduce the problem
with XKBVARIANT="U.S. English".

Does it start to work for you too if you set XKBVARIANT to ""? Also,
does it work with the lucid final X server for you, too?

We might consider adding a workaround for this "U.S. English" variant
and ignore it, but at this point it really gets messy.

For now I suggest that everyone who is affected fixes
/etc/default/console-setup to replace the broken
XKBVARIANT="U.S. English" with XKBVARIANT="".

Martin
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