Re: Keys don't type correct chars after kernel upgrade

[Rory Campbell-Lange <rory@campbell-lange.net>]

Hi Marshal. 

Thanks for your help. My XFree86 file hasn't changed though between
kernel versions, and works fine under 2.4.19...!

Cheers
Rory

On 15/10/03, Marshal Wong (masee@ephishmsee.com) wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 09:04, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
> > I should have mentioned that I attempted my own kernel build, using
> > make-kpkg.
> > On 15/10/03, Rory Campbell-Lange (rory@campbell-lange.net) wrote:
> > > I've just upgraded to 2.4.22-ben2 and all seems to be working fine at
> > > the moment, other than the fact that when I startx and open an xterm,
> > > none of my key strokes produce recognisable characters. This is not a
> > > problem when I am working on the console, without starting X.
> 
> Since this is only in X, you may want to check you /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
> and see what keymap you're using.
> 
> These are the lines I have, but I don't use ADB keycodes like you do.
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
>         Driver          "keyboard"
>         Option          "CoreKeyboard"
>         Option          "XkbRules"      "xfree86"
>         Option          "XkbModel"      "macintosh"
>         Option          "XkbLayout"     "us"
> EndSection
>  
> I believe there is a "macintosh_old" that might work for you.

Excerpt from my XFree86 file:

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Generic Keyboard"
	Driver		"keyboard"
	Option		"CoreKeyboard"
	Option		"XkbRules"	"xfree86"
	Option		"XkbModel"	"macintosh"
	Option		"XkbLayout"	"us"
	Option		"XkbVariant"	"ibook"
EndSection

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Rory Campbell-Lange 
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