Quoting steven alyari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Olof, > > copy /etc/X11/xkb/keymap/macintosh to blah/macintosh.fr > > open mac*.fr and change macintosh/us(extended) to macintosh/fr(extended) > > you'll notice an entire heirarchy for this stuff in /etc/X11/xkb > > yours, > steven alyari > > in reply to: > > Hello, > > another question about X : > > In my XF86Config file, I have (Keyboard section) : > > XkbKeymap "xfree86(fr_CH)" > > for the swiss-french keyboard. But under X, the keyboard is unusable. > It's not an US or UK keyboard but in place of 'f', I have '2', for > exemple ! > > Must I specifie at any place what I have a Macintosh keyboard ?
Yes and no. Check http://home.munich.netsurf.de/Franz.Sirl/inputppc.html What you can do is: 1) have a telnet/ssh/whatever connection to the box you want to modify (so that if you screw up your kbd config, you can at least reload a working keymap and/or kill XFree) 2) "echo 1 > /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes" This will make the kernel translate your ADB keycodes (the RAW ones sent by the keyboard) to Linux keycodes (in fact AT keycodes...) 3) Load a x86 keymap corresponding the language of your keyboard (using loadkeys). Keymaps should be in /usr/share/keymaps Note: 2) and 3) should be done in one go, using a script or separating the commands by a ";", make sure you know what you're doing, and reread 1) if unsure. 4) At this point you should have a working keyboard under the console 5) modify your XF86Config to use a "normal" keymap, for example the fr_CH you were using. 6) Launch XFree86 and it should work 7) put 2) in your /etc/rc.local, and change the default keymap to the one you were using in 3) (using kbdconfig iirc), test if it works by rebooting (just to make sure) Hope this helps PS: Otherwise you could simply have XFree load a macintosh keymap, like "macintosh/us", but i don't think there is any fr_CH keymap for macintosh... /Bastien Nocera http://hadess.net
