Re: Mac USB keyboard
On 13 May 2003, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote:
> With a flat imac (usb keyboard) the AltGr key is the right Alt key
> It works with XFree and console and it's the default configuration.
> My Xfree keyboard config is like the one for a PC, model pc105, rules
> xfree86 and layout es
That doesn't work on the first iMac CRT with a narrow USB keyboard (see the
key list below - there is NO Alt_R on this keyboard).
> El mar, 13 de 05 de 2003 a las 14:35, Martin-Éric Racine escribió:
> > On Tue, 13 May 2003, Veit Waltemath wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 02:41:05AM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> > > > Greetings,
> > > >
> > > > I'm just wondering how you solved that problem with the XFree86 keymap that is
> > > > mentioned in Debian bug #121297? You mention something about ADB_Keycodes
> > > > fixing this, but how and where do I enable this? What does the following
> > > > section in your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 look like:
> > > >
> > > > Section "InputDevice"
> > > > Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
> > > > Driver "keyboard"
> > > > Option "CoreKeyboard"
> > > > Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
> > > > Option "XkbModel" "macintosh"
> > > > Option "XkbLayout" "fi"
> > > > EndSection
> > > >
> > > > In my case, the computer is an early iMac (Rev.D 333MHz) but the same problem
> > > > applies to XFree as your iBook and the expected key order is the same.
> > > >
> > > > However, I found perfect keymaps for the virtual console in console-data such as
> > > > the /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/mac-usb-fi-latin1.kmap.gz (or in your case
> > > > that would be /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwertz/mac-usb-de-latin1.kmap.gz).
> > > >
> > > > --
> > >
> > > Hi Martin-Éric,
> > >
> > > my thoughts at that time to solve the problem was to buy a new Keyboard,
> > > so i bought a new Macintosh Keyboærd with a additional right ALT Key.
> > > But I end with the same Keycode issue.
> > > Somebody posted a solution in the debian-ppc ML, here is what i've done,
> > > but there are many other and shorter solutions but i can't remember
> > > them.
> > >
> > > Add the following at the end of your /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh/fi:
> > > - - - - - - -
> > > partial alphanumeric_keys
> > > xkb_symbols "mycustomkeys" {
> > > include "macintosh/se(basic)"
> > > include "ralt"
> > > };
> > > - - - - - - -
> > >
> > > and put this in Section "InputDevice" in your XF86Config-4:
> > > Option "XkbVariant" "mycustomkeys"
> > >
> > > I hope this helps, when not ask in the debian-ppc ML, i'am not
> > > familiar with this keycode and xkb thing.
> > >
> > > BTW, i filed that bug on 26.11.2001 and this is still there in XFree
> > > 4.3.0, neither a fix from Debian nor from XFree.
> >
> > Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately, that mycustomkeys made things worse. :(
> >
> > Whoever had found the solutions mentioned by Veit, can you please repost?
> >
> > Fixing the 4 meta keys found on old iBook/iMac keyboards whose bottom row is
> > (Ctrl,Alt,LeftApple,<Spacebar>,RightApple,<Arrows>) is probably a problem
> > affecting all early iBook/iMac from the first generation, on all locales.
> >
> > Surely somebody on Debian/PPC or XFree86 must have fixed that problem already?
> >
> > --
> > Martin-Éric Racine
> > http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/
> >
>
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Martin-Éric Racine
http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/
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