Apple (powerpc) keyboards on etch

[Frederic Lehobey <Frederic.Lehobey@free.fr>]

Hi,

I am having a hard time configuring, for xorg, French keybords on
respectively an iMac (Bondi Blue Rev. B, USB keyboard) and an iBook
(G3, also called iBook 2 if I do not mistake) I have both upgraded to
etch.

I am failing to find a proper combination for having the |, \ and [ ]
(and such) on those keyboards (quite annoying!).

I know these problems have been discussed at length and are supposed
to be now solved. It used to work properly with xorg 6.9 but has never
worked for me with 7.0 nor 7.1. I am ready to file a bug against
xkb-data but am asking this list just before in case I missed
something. Is it working for anyone on this list (with such French
keyboards) with the xorg in etch?

Below a summary of my attempts.

Thanks,
Frédéric Lehobey
(It seems we are missing Denis Barbier very badly...)

1/ I have read
/usr/share/doc/xkb-data/README.Debian
and
/usr/share/X11/xkb/rules

2/ Attempts with dpkg-reconfigure xorg

a)
Excerpt of /etc/X11/xorg.conf
----
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver          "kbd"
        Option          "CoreKeyboard"
        Option          "XkbRules"      "xorg"
        Option          "XkbModel"      "ibook"
        Option          "XkbLayout"     "fr"
EndSection

Excerpt of /var/log/Xorg.O.log
----
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Configured Mouse" (type: MOUSE)
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Generic Keyboard" (type: KEYBOARD)
    xkb_keycodes             { include "macintosh+aliases(azerty)" };
    xkb_types                { include "complete+numpad(mac)" };
    xkb_compatibility        { include "complete" };
    xkb_symbols              { include "pc(pc105)+macintosh_vndr/fr+inet(apple)+level3(enter_switch)" };
    xkb_geometry             { include "macintosh(macintosh)" };

b)
Excerpt of /etc/X11/xorg.conf
----
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver          "kbd"
        Option          "CoreKeyboard"
        Option          "XkbRules"      "xorg"
        Option          "XkbModel"      "macintosh"
        Option          "XkbLayout"     "fr"
EndSection

Excerpt of /var/log/Xorg.O.log
----
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Configured Mouse" (type: MOUSE)
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Generic Keyboard" (type: KEYBOARD)
    xkb_keycodes             { include "macintosh+aliases(azerty)" };
    xkb_types                { include "complete+numpad(mac)" };
    xkb_compatibility        { include "complete" };
    xkb_symbols              { include "pc(pc105)+macintosh_vndr/fr+inet(apple)
 };
    xkb_geometry             { include "macintosh(macintosh)" };

c)
Excerpt of /etc/X11/xorg.conf
----
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver          "kbd"
        Option          "CoreKeyboard"
        Option          "XkbRules"      "xorg"
        Option          "XkbModel"      "pc105"
        Option          "XkbLayout"     "fr"
        Option          "XkbVariant"    "mac"
EndSection

Excerpt of /var/log/Xorg.O.log
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Configured Mouse" (type: MOUSE)
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Generic Keyboard" (type: KEYBOARD)
    xkb_keycodes             { include "xfree86+aliases(azerty)" };
    xkb_types                { include "complete" };
    xkb_compatibility        { include "complete" };
    xkb_symbols              { include "pc(pc105)+fr(mac)" };
    xkb_geometry             { include "pc(pc105)" };