From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200010221630.SAA01006@piglet.grunz.lu> Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 18:30:01 +0200 (CEST) From: Michel Lanners Reply-To: mlan@cpu.lu Subject: Keyboard trouble with XF 4.0.1 To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Hi all, I finally found the time to upgrade to Franz Sirl's XF 4.0.1 rpms. I hoped to solve some of my keyboard problems, but it got worse :-(( My setup: - Apple Extended Keyboard II (dmesg shows handler 3: ADB keyboard at 2, handler set to 3 Detected ADB keyboard, type ISO, swapping keys.) - kernel 2.2.17pre20-ben3 (the source tarball from benh's site) (to get the new input stuff, which is enabled) - XF 4.0.1 rpms from Franz (XFree86-4.0.1-0.36a) - XKB enabled (but I couldn't get a decent map loaded... went back to xmodmap) First question: does anybody have pointers or info about how to setup XKB? I've looked around a fair bit, but found nothing of value. Nothing that specifies how to change the layout without blindly relying on some undocumented options... Second, my Alt'ed or Shift-Alt'ed keys still don't work. Under Linux keycodes, there is no difference whether Alt is pressed or not; the resulting key is the same, and xev shows the same old keycode as without Alt. Under ADB keycodes, there is a reaction to Alt, but it seems to be to _turn_off_ the highest bit in the resulting keysym. The keycode is right, though.... Then, with ADB keycodes, the key left of '1' and the one right to 'Shift_L' are swapped vs. my previous setup. Is it now 'the right way'? Could be, since the default US map I got with X was right... So I guess those keys have been swapped in the 'old' code for ages. Anybody got any help? Especially the the Alt problem is _really_ annoying, since I have many usefull keys on an Alt'ed binding (like @, #, \ and |). Thanks Michel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michel Lanners | " Read Philosophy. Study Art. 23, Rue Paul Henkes | Ask Questions. Make Mistakes. L-1710 Luxembourg | email mlan@cpu.lu | http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan | Learn Always. " ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/