On Tue, 13 May 2003, Veit Waltemath wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 02:41:05AM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I'm just wondering how you solved that problem with the XFree86 keymap that
> > is
> > mentioned in Debian bug #121297? You mention something about ADB_Keycodes
> > fixing this, but how and where do I enable this? What does the following
> > section in your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 look like:
> >
> > Section "InputDevice"
> > Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
> > Driver "keyboard"
> > Option "CoreKeyboard"
> > Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
> > Option "XkbModel" "macintosh"
> > Option "XkbLayout" "fi"
> > EndSection
> >
> > In my case, the computer is an early iMac (Rev.D 333MHz) but the same
> > problem
> > applies to XFree as your iBook and the expected key order is the same.
> >
> > However, I found perfect keymaps for the virtual console in console-data
> > such as
> > the /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/mac-usb-fi-latin1.kmap.gz (or in your
> > case
> > that would be /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwertz/mac-usb-de-latin1.kmap.gz).
> >
> > --
>
> Hi Martin-Éric,
>
> my thoughts at that time to solve the problem was to buy a new Keyboard,
> so i bought a new Macintosh Keyboćrd with a additional right ALT Key.
> But I end with the same Keycode issue.
> Somebody posted a solution in the debian-ppc ML, here is what i've done,
> but there are many other and shorter solutions but i can't remember
> them.
>
> Add the following at the end of your /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/macintosh/fi:
> - - - - - - -
> partial alphanumeric_keys
> xkb_symbols "mycustomkeys" {
> include "macintosh/se(basic)"
> include "ralt"
> };
> - - - - - - -
>
> and put this in Section "InputDevice" in your XF86Config-4:
> Option "XkbVariant" "mycustomkeys"
>
> I hope this helps, when not ask in the debian-ppc ML, i'am not
> familiar with this keycode and xkb thing.
>
> BTW, i filed that bug on 26.11.2001 and this is still there in XFree
> 4.3.0, neither a fix from Debian nor from XFree.
Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately, that mycustomkeys made things worse. :(
Whoever had found the solutions mentioned by Veit, can you please repost?
Fixing the 4 meta keys found on old iBook/iMac keyboards whose bottom row is
(Ctrl,Alt,LeftApple,<Spacebar>,RightApple,<Arrows>) is probably a problem
affecting all early iBook/iMac from the first generation, on all locales.
Surely somebody on Debian/PPC or XFree86 must have fixed that problem already?
--
Martin-Éric Racine
http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/
