Re: French keymap on TiBook ?
On ven, nov 23, 2001 at 10:07:37 +0000, franck routier wrote:
> Did anyone manage to use a french keyboard TiBook under debian gnu Linux
> ?
Well, I don't have a TiBook, but an Ibook 2001 running Woody with Linux
keycodes... and I suppose their keyboards are not very different.
> - if I use the standard console-tools, I get a wrong keymap (for example
> the '_' gives me a '=' )
Yes, I experencied the same. Looks like it is mapped as a PC keyboard.
Pretty useless in most cases.
> - if I replace console-tool's boottime.kmap.gz with the one found on
> http://www.linux-france.org/article/materiel/mac/clavier_rpm3.html ,
> things get better, but I still don't get alt to work. Especially it
> results in preventing me from having any | or {} characters...
Try [Shift][Alt][L], [Shift][Alt][(], [Shift][Alt][)] or st like that.
(Sorry, I don't have my Ibook with me at the moment). The problem is that
those sequences change whether you are a plain console or under X.
* J'espère que cela peut t'aider ;) *
Lionel.
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