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.
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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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