I've recently installed KDE 4.4.5 on my Gentoo Linux and I've been facing this strange behaviour by the keyboard only when I am running KDE: "Down arrow" key seems to insert a new line, pressing "/" on the numeric keypad acts like Uparrow and "Delete key" deletes the character but also launches
ksnapshot!!

In System Settings, Language, Keyboard settings my keybooard was set to "Generic 104-PC". I changed it to "Generic 105-key (Intl) PC" but this did not help at all.

I've seen a similar problem in this forum by AlexBW titled "Strange keyboard behaviour in KDE 4.4.5", but did not give a solution. Maybe the problem is X related and does not dipend on KDE.

Can anybody help me? I am using Linux-2.6.34-gentoo-r1 kernel and xorg-server 1.7.7-r1

This is my xorg.conf file

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Section "ServerLayout"
   Identifier     "X.org Configured"
   Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
   InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
   InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"

    Option "AllowEmptyInput"  "false"
    Option "XkbModel" "pc105"

EndSection

Section "Files"
   ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
   FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
   FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
   FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/OTF"
   FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
   FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
   FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
       #Load  "dri2"
   Load  "glx"
       #Load  "dri"
   Load  "dbe"
   Load  "extmod"
   Load  "record"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
   Identifier  "Keyboard0"
   Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
   Identifier  "Mouse0"
   Driver      "mouse"
   Option       "Protocol" "auto"
   Option       "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
   Option       "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
   Identifier   "Monitor0"
   VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
   ModelName    "Monitor Model"
EndSection

Section "Device"
   Identifier  "Card0"
   Driver      "nvidia"
   VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
   BoardName   "Unknown Board"
   BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"

#      DefaultDepth  16

   Identifier "Screen0"
   Device     "Card0"
   Monitor    "Monitor0"
   SubSection "Display"
      Viewport   0 0
      Depth     16
   EndSubSection
   SubSection "Display"
      Viewport   0 0
      Depth     24
   EndSubSection
   SubSection "Display"
      Viewport   0 0
      Depth     32
   EndSubSection
   SubSection "Display"
      Viewport   0 0
      Depth     32
   EndSubSection
   SubSection "Display"
      Viewport   0 0
      Depth     16
   EndSubSection
   SubSection "Display"
      Viewport   0 0
      Depth     24
   EndSubSection
EndSection


Thanks in advance

fresta

maybe provide a pic of the keyboard to see if others use it and what they have it set as?

do you experience same issue(s) if you use a different keyboard?

did you try generic 101? only suggest it cause that's what mine's set at

google01103 wrote:maybe provide a pic of the keyboard to see if others use it and what they have it set as?

do you experience same issue(s) if you use a different keyboard?

did you try generic 101? only suggest it cause that's what mine's set at

My keyboard is a standard one with some additional buttons to be used only under Win with dedicated driver, which I never used.
In the past I always set it as generic 105 and it worked fine with kde3 and kde 4.3.5.
I've tried a different keyboard and also other settings like "generic 101" and the problem is always the same.

I was able to fix the problem by adding this code to my xorg.conf file:

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Section "ServerFlags"
   Option "AutoAddDevices" "Off"
EndSection

Thanks anyway.