Re: b-f 3.0.19 on PowerBook G4
On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 06:06, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-03-03 at 18:31, Michel Dänzer wrote:
>
> > I hope I'll find time to test it tomorrow or at least sometime this
> > week.
>
> Cool; that would be much appreciated. BTW, I mistyped the original URL;
> it's actually at
>
> http://penguinppc.org/~walters/debian/installer-current/
Thanks, but as Matt says it doesn't work yet...
> > The basic layout was fine, but I couldn't type 'special' symbols like |.
> > I suspect it was the sg map (for a PC keyboard), not mac-usb-de_CH.
>
> Ahh. If your keyboard isn't in the US layout, that would explain the
> difference. My knowledge about console keymaps and such is very close
> to zero, so I hope someone else can fix this...
Well, in general you simply want the mac-usb variant if it exists or the
standard PC one otherwise. Maybe that's already done but the
inconsistent naming for the Swiss German keymaps (sg vs. mac-usb-de_CH)
causes the wrong one to be used there?
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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