Re: XFree86/Keyboard can't use at-sign
On Mit, 2002-03-20 at 10:38, eric.s.cote@sympatico.ca wrote:
> on 14/03/2002 04:20, Eric Lemoine at Eric.Lemoine@ens-lyon.fr wrote:
>
> >>> With
> >>>
> >>> XkbRules xfree86
> >>> XkbModel macintosh
> >>> XkbLayout fr_new
> >>>
> >>> my keyboard is still screwed up. By adding XkbKeycodes macintosh
> >>> everything works fine.
> >>
> >> So you seem to be still using ADB keycodes and need XkbModel
> >> macintosh_old.
> >
> > You're right. My ibook2 uses ADB keycodes. macintosh_old solved
> > all my keyboard problems.
>
> I'm having some ADB keyboard problems too. I have these settings in
> xf86config-4. But first, just so u folks know where I'm coming from now,
> here's my new set-up: upgraded to woody, and I've nearly completed compiling
> the 2.4.18 kernel that I d/led from the debian archives - note: in the
> README it says that a patch was applied. is that the patch that _needed to
> be applied cuz something was missing? I'm "stuck" in mac OS right now cuz my
> X isn't working. (I didn't know it was that easy to compile a kernel... :-)
>
> Ok, I have xkb set to macintosh_old, with xfree86 as a keyboard protocol,
> and 3-button emu (F11 and F12 as buttons 2 and 3). I have the
> "dev/mac_hid/keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes = 1". I had that funky _ssj thing
> happen - it was fun to fix though, since I knew what was up :).
macintosh_old is for _ADB_ keycodes (as the X server debconf interface
explains...). You use Linux keycodes and thus need "XkbModel"
"macintosh".
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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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