Re: Why is X suddenly ignoring my dvorak settings?
Well, the whole problem worked itself out, when I
set /etc/boottime.kmap.gz to the i386 version of
dvorak. I guess X just sets its keyboard based on
this rather than the one in the XF86Config.
Since there isn't a dvorak macintosh symbols file,
I'll
try to set it to "us". If that messes things up,
I'll go try to find that old macintosh dvorak
symbols file. Or I'll just leave it alone. Sure
wish there was some way to do this without setting
my whole system to dvorak with
/etc/boottime.kmap.gz, but I deal with it.
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 09:34:40PM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote:
> 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 D?nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
> XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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