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Re: Why is X suddenly ignoring my dvorak settings?



On Mit, 2002-11-20 at 16:03, William Crowshaw wrote: 
> Just when I thought I got it all figure out, X 4.0.1
> on my PowerMac 7500 threw me for a loop.  I just
> upgraded to Debian Woody and I'm using the 2.2.20
> kernel. I'm also using the new input layer, forgoing
> the old ADB stuff.  This has greatly simplfied
> keyboard issues that I have always had when it comes
> to using dvorak. Now, I can just loadkeys the i386
> dvorak keyboard in the console in its all cool.  Until
> yesterday too, all I had to do to get dvorak to work
> of X was to use this configuration in XF86Config-4:
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
> 	Identifier	"Generic Keyboard"
> 	Driver		"keyboard"
> 	Option		"CoreKeyboard"
> 	Option		"XkbRules"	"xfree86"
> 	Option		"XkbModel"	"macintosh"
> 	Option		"XkbLayout"	"dvorak"
> EndSection
> 
> However, for some unknown reason, this setting no
> longer works.  I get qwerty in gdm and in X.
> 
> If anyone has any ideas about how I can fix this
> problem, I would greatly appreciate it

/etc/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh doesn't contain a dvorak file. You could
try putting the one from the older X version there, or maybe it works
with powerpcps2 for XkbModel.


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



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