Re: Bug#366615: Xorg upgrade breaks keyboard settings on powerbook3,3
According to Denis Barbier, on Sat, 10 Jun 2006 21:55:33
+0200,
>On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 06:58:40PM +0200, Teemu Ikonen wrote:
>> Now the question arises, why change the name of the keyboard model
>> from "macintosh" to "macintosh_vndr", which (maybe) breaks every apple
>> laptop on upgrade?
>
>In fact, "macintosh" has not been changed into "macintosh_vndr", you
>may try "foo" or "bar" and have the same result. Everything but
>"macintosh" means "pc105" (okay, this is not strictly true, there are
>qome other valid models, but it does not really matter here).
>So the question is: why has "macintosh" model been changed into
>"pc105"? I do not remember exactly, there are other issues with
>macintosh layouts, and upstream is interested in working with
>debian-powerpc folks to improve the current situation, see
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6671
>Can someone from debian-powerpc join the XKB list, so that these issues
>can be looked at? IIRC one needs to send a mail to xkb-subscribe at
>listserv.bat.ru.
>Thanks, and sorry for not sending this information before, I was busy
>at that time.
>
>Denis
>
>
Same problem here.
It took me some time to find out that
/etc/X11/xkb is no longer read, but
/usr/share/X11/xkb is read instead.
--
Cedric
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