On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 03:50:37PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > [... most interesting discussion of xkb workings snipped ...] > > In unstable, there are 2 models: macintosh and macintosh_old. > > The latter is for older kernels, and should probably be renamed into > > macintosh_adb for clarity reasons. > > Please pick another name - macintosh_old is strictly for ADB Macs that use > a very old kernel (or a compatibility feature) to send keycodes in the ADB > mapping. The very same ADB Macs now use PC style keycode mapping; that's a > kernel side issue only! macintosh_old is clearly more appropriate than > macintosh_adb. If you want to make this any clearer, use a name like > macintosh_oldkernel or some abbreviation of this.
I do not understand why macintosh_adb is wrong, but hey, I know nothing about Macs, so I will put what you folks are telling me; let's keep macintosh_old. > Both the kernel version and the potential compatibility mapping can easily > be detected at run time - check for presence of the file > > /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes > > If this contains 0, ADB keycodes are used. If the file is not present or > 1, Linux keycodes (unless the kernel version is fairly ancient: 2.4.26 > already had the keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes hack. 2.4.18 might not) > > To complete your data collection: on my german ADB ISO keyboard, <> and ^ > are swapped unless macintosh_old2 is used, just as Helge reported. That's > the adb devices: [2]: 2 c4 [3]: 3 1 [7]: 7 1f case as posted before. Ok, we are pretty close to a solution. If I understand what has been said in this thread, with a recent kernal, all Mac keyboards should have a unique model name in xkb-data. Auto-detection does not always work, this is why an alternative model is needed to swap two keys. Hopefully kernel will be updated and auto-detection will work better in the future, so people may have to switch from this alternative model to the standard model. Now there is one question left: what is the standard model? In the terminoology of xkb-data 0.8-12exp1, is this macintosh_old2 or macintosh? I would say the former, since these are the same keycodes as with PC keyboards, but I would be glad if someone could confirm. Oh, one more question: what is a good name for the alternative model? What about macintosh_swap? Thanks. Denis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
