Re: Powerpc (mac-G4) -essentially (hardly) broken
On Die, 2002-01-22 at 19:54, Nick Bailey wrote:
> Anyway, thanks to Liam, the keyboard problem's also solved. I ended up
> adding the following to /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh/gb
>
> key <LWIN> { [ Mode_switch ] };
>
> Now apple-3 produces the # sign (look!! --> # <-- little things please
> little minds!) as advertised.
So the right alt/option key doesn't work as Mode_switch by default?
> I also have to get the tilde/grave key to
> produce tilde/grave (it produces < or > in the console, and the
> plus/minus / section key -- top left of the keyboard -- does the
> tilde/grave thing) It took ages to find this out: the key is inbetween
> the left hand shift key and the Z, so I don't understand why X thinks
> it's AC11. It returns kecode 94 according the xev: this is strange
> because that's the code for KP4 according to the keycodes file I looked
> in. I don't know what's going on here, but this fixes it (and changing
> KP4 stops the 4 on the keypad from working, so at least that's consistent).
>
> key <AC11> { [ grave, asciitilde ] };
Dunno what's up here but if the console has the same failure, it sounds like
the kernel is at fault.
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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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