Re: Boot floppies 2.2.11 report (failure)
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > Hmm, I have this in /usr/share/keymaps/mac
> > mac-de-latin1-nodeadkeys.kmap.gz
> > mac-de2-ext.kmap.gz
> > Which one, if any, to use?
>
> The mac-de2-ext.kmap.gz looks like a Mac ADB keymap to me. The other might
> be a X or USB map. Compare them, maybe it'll be obvious. Or let a Mac user
> try both.
>
I have the following keymaps available on the potato Mac (with double
cheese:)
brill@inkling:~$ dpkg --search 'mac-*.kmap*'
console-data: /usr/share/keymaps/mac/mac-de2-ext.kmap.gz
console-data: /usr/share/keymaps/mac/mac-fr3.kmap.gz
console-data: /usr/share/keymaps/mac/mac-de-latin1-nodeadkeys.kmap.gz
console-data: /usr/share/keymaps/mac/mac-us-ext.kmap.gz
console-data: /usr/share/keymaps/mac/mac-us-std.kmap.gz
console-data: /usr/share/keymaps/mac/mac-fr2-ext.kmap.gz
brill@inkling:~$
both -de- keymaps work with an extended (102+ keys) german ADB Keyboard.
They differ in the placement of the characters @{[]}\~| available via
Alt-Graphics on german keyboards (and they have the freedom to do so since
Apple wont't print indications on where to find these characters onto its
keyboards).
mac-de2-ext mostly uses the same keys as IBM PC + compatible.
I have (and use) a self-made .kmap derived from mac-us-ext IIRC which does
this strictly instead of mostly. If somebody's interested I can donate it.
mac-de-isolatin1-nodeadkeys uses the funny keys MacOS has chosen (and
Mac people are used to).
BTW it doesn't work out of the box, loadkeys won't load it without the
following patch
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
# de-latin1-nodeadkeys-apple.map: German keymap for Apple keyboards
# Broken in several respects.
-keymaps 0-2,4,6,8,12
+keymaps 0-3,4-6,8,10,12
strings as usual
keycode 53 = Escape Escape
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Regards,
Bjoern Brill
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Bj"orn Brill <brill@fs.math.uni-frankfurt.de>
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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