I am trying to use a French-Canadian keyboard with Debian 1.1.
During the Debian install I asked to use cf.map as the default keyboard
which is indeed loaded at boot. However, it does not work marvelously
well.
I have been through the keyboard manpage, the keyboard HOWTO, and
two mini-HOWTO's to no great avail. The number of things it does not do
correctly are too numerous to to explicitly list, but I hope that a brief
selection will allow someone out there to spot a problem that can be
fixed.
The modifiers that are active are the following:
keymaps 0-2, 4, 6, 8, 12
_AltGr:_ Some combinations seem to work, others not. For example, the
following all work correctly.
keycode 3 = two quotedbl at
keycode 26 = dead_circumflex asciicircum bracketleft
keycode 41 = numbersign bar backslash
These ones don't:
keycode 2 = one exclam plusminus
keycode 24 = o
altgr keycode 24 = section
keycode 25 = p
altgr keycode 25 = paragraph
keycode 53 = eacute Eacute acute
There are other examples of AltGr's that do and don't work. What
the ones that don't work do varies with the environment (vi, bash, pine):
1) nothing,
2) ring the ascii bell,
3) print out an hexadecimal number or
4) make the $ prompt disappear printing an (arg: 0), or an
(arg: 6), or some other (arg: ), then make the bash
prompt reappear after pressing <return>, but not
accomplishing anything useful.
_Ctrl_: The right control key seems not to work at all. I think this may
be because of its definition:
keycode 97 = Compose Control
But, Shift+right control doesn't work either, nor does Compose (There are
a number of compose definitions at the end of the keymap file).
As for the left Control key, it works for some things but not for
everything. In Pine, on a dial up text account using terminal emulation via
minicom, Ctrl-C will work to cancel a message, as will Control-X to send
it, but none of Ctrl-O to postpone, Ctrl-^ to mark
text, Ctrl-K to cut, etc will.
I think too much is going wrong for this to be strictly a keymap
file problem. Besides, things seem to in order according to the help
documents mentionned above.
Any ideas or clues out there? Thanks a lot
Gerald Crimp
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