Marian,
On 09/12/11(Fri) 19:47, Marian Hettwer wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> yesterday I installed OpenBSD 5.0 on my 2006 Powerbook G4 model.
> First of all, thanks for an impressive job!
> The installation worked like a charm. The powerbook came up with
> ethernet, wlan, audio and X working. This is impressive! Thanks :-)
Do not hesitate to send your dmesg along with your questions/reports it
always help.
> However, I have a few open questions, I couldn't answer myself after
> reading the documentation, asking google and cruising the ppc@
> mailinglist via gmane.org.
>
> 1.) In console mode, using "kbd de", I'm missing some very important
> keys. Namely: < > | [ ] { } @
> It's kinda hard to use a unix without them... ;)
> Any clue where they are? Or how to map them to some keys?
For the moment, most of the European layouts are not really supported in
console with an Apple USB keyboard. It's a known issue and I'm working
on it.
> 2.) Same counts for X. I just used start x and as said above, I'm
> glad that X came up and looked good.
> But without them keys, again, it's hard too use.
> Even shot myself into the foot when I installed fluxbox and
> realized, that ctrl+alt+backspace wasn't working. Crivens!
> Does somebody has a good working xmodmap for german keyboard on
> powerbook G4 lying around?
I don't have an xmodmap, but you should remap one of the Super keys
(mapped to the Apple keys) Super_L/Super_R to Alt_R to be able to write
all your characters.
> I remember a graphical tool which helped building an own xmodmap.
> But I just can't remember how that one was called. I tried xev, but
> that was just plain confusing.
>
> 3.) Battery status: Any tool to read out that one?
have a look at apm(4) and apmd(8)
Martin
