Re: non-US keyboard on Pismo

[Frank Murphy <murphyf+deb-ppc@f-m.fm>]

On Saturday 14 June 2003 6:13, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jun 2003, Frank Murphy wrote:
> > > Then it appears that X has a bug, while console-tools correctly
> > > supports this early iMac CRT keyboard (the original narrow keyboard,
> > > before the Pro model).
> >
> > After you've configured X (with `dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86`), what
> > does the Keyboard InputDevice section in /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

Ah, I was thinking French, too. (The original post was about a French 
keyboard.) Unfortunately, you'll have to try some things, as I don't have an 
immediate solution for you (or a Finnish keyboard!)

So first, copy your keyboard InputDevice section, and paste a copy at the 
first line of your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. That way, you can still use debconf 
to manage the rest of your XF86Config-4, but have your keyboard overrides.

Then, I have a couple of ideas for you to try. You'll have to restart X after 
each of these changes and see if it works.

First, try deleting the XkbModel "macintosh" line. From the 
/etc/X11/xkb/keymap/macintosh file, only us keyboards are defined. Restart 
and see if that works.

Otherwise, try deleting the XkbLayout line and adding a line:
XkbSymbols  "symbols/en_us(pc105)+fi

Let us know if either of these help.

Frank