On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 01:19:39PM +0100, James Tappin wrote: > On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 13:51:35 +0200 > "Teemu Ikonen" <tpikonen@pcu.helsinki.fi> wrote: > > TI> Hi all, > TI> > TI> The xorg upgrade in etch made the keyboard on my TiBook unusable. > TI> Strangely enough, I could only type numbers and punctuation, but not > TI> alphabetical characters. Thus I could only code in perl :) > TI> > TI> I got my system working by changing theXkbModel to "pc105" from > TI> "macintosh", but now the umlaut characters on my Finnish keyboard do > TI> not work. Could someone please give me a hint on the right xorg > TI> keyboard setting in powerbooks? Instead of everyone implementing an individual workaround we should try to hunt the bug down. I have reported bug 366615 about this, see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=366615 and add your expericence of the bug to the bugreport. > TI> Here's the xorg.conf keyboard section which I have at the moment: > TI> > TI> Section "InputDevice" > TI> Identifier "TiBook Keyboard" > TI> Driver "keyboard" > TI> Option "CoreKeyboard" > TI> Option "XkbRules" "xorg" > TI> # Option "XkbModel" "macintosh" > TI> Option "XkbModel" "pc105" > TI> Option "XkbLayout" "fi" > TI> EndSection [...] > I had a similar problem when upgrading my iBook G3 from Ubuntu Breezy to > Dapper, with the gb keyboard -- however in my case it was only the top > row of keys that worked, so there was only a limited subset of > punctuation. Good to know that I might expect this when upgrading to dapper. > I also had to use pc105 and also switch KDE from using the > gb layout to the us layout (it remains gb in the xorg config file). (I > even tried using an external keyboard > with the same results). Unfortunately on the Ubuntu lists I didn't get > any answers. Try the debian bug tracking system. kind regards, -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <hans@sociologi.cjb.net> Q. What is that strange attachment in this mail? A. My digital signature, see www.gnupg.org for info on how you could use it to ensure that this mail is from me and has not been altered on the way to you.
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