Bug#379148: xkb-data: macintosh XkbModel is broken
On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 06:49:38PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
> Package: xkb-data
> Version: 0.8-6
> Severity: normal
>
> I am using an Apple USB keyboard (United Kingdom version).
>
> With the following in xorg.conf:
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
> Driver "kbd"
> Option "CoreKeyboard"
> Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
> Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
> Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
> # Option "XkbOptions" "altwin:meta_win"
> EndSection
>
> The keyboard works, including all the alphanumeric keys, but the
> punctuation is wrong. This is because although the keycodes are the
> same as a standard pc105 keyboard, the engraving on the keytops is
> different.
>
> With this in xorg.conf:
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
> Driver "kbd"
> Option "CoreKeyboard"
> Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
> Option "XkbModel" "macintosh"
> Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
> # Option "XkbOptions" "altwin:meta_win"
> EndSection
>
> The keyboard is quite broken. None of the alphabet keys work, and half
> of the punctuation keys are broken. The numeric keys do work. Since
> the keyboard is a macintosh keyboard (not ADB, though), this looks like
> the correct configuration.
>
> I saw this some time ago, but it was fixed. This behaviour appeared
> again today, possibly due to the recent xkb-data upload.
Hmmm, maybe you hacked your files as described in #363525, I am afraid
that this bug never got fixed. I just checked in a possible fix in SVN,
but I am now away for some time and cannot test it. Can you please try
XkbModel "macintosh" and copy
http://people.debian.org/~barbier/tmp/gb
into /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh_vndr/gb
If it works, feel free to ask any XSF member to upload xkb-data from
SVN.
Thanks
Denis
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