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Re: XFree86 4.1.0 Keyboard settings?



On Sat, 2001-12-29 at 19:13, William C Brennan wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I just updated to version 4.1.0-9 ("testing") of XFree86 on my 
> PowerMac 7200.  I'm not even sure which version I had been previously 
> running (I think it was a patched version of 4.0.3), but it had been 
> working fine since May.
> 
> When I try to run XFree 4.1.0 (via startx), the Gnome desktop comes 
> up just fine, but the keyboard no longer works properly: most keys 
> don't produce anything and some keys produce the wrong letters. 
> Obviously, the key mappings must be wrong.
> 
> I hope the solution is as simple as to change the input section of 
> /etc/X11/XFConfig-4.  Here is what it currently looks like:
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
> 	Identifier	"Generic Keyboard"
> 	Driver		"keyboard"
> 	Option		"CoreKeyboard"
> 	Option		"XkbRules"	"xfree86"
> 	Option		"XkbModel"	"macintosh"
> 	Option		"XkbLayout"	"us"
> EndSection

You're probably still using ADB keycodes and have to change the XkbModel
to "macintosh_old".


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast



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