From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <39FD42BF.3623CD9D@noos.fr> Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 10:43:27 +0100 From: Guillaume Laures MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mlan@cpu.lu CC: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Keyboard trouble with XF 4.0.1 References: <200010292159.WAA02769@piglet.grunz.lu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Michel Lanners wrote: > Hi Guillaume, > > On 29 Oct, this message from Guillaume Laures echoed through cyberspace: > > - fr-mac.kmap.gz: a map to use at console (place in > > /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/mac/ and run kbdconfig) > > I'll have a look, but as long as I stay in ADB keycodes, my console > works ok. I have yet to check why this is so ;-) Installed initscripts-5.35-1a ? It will switch you to linux keycodes in conole, I guess by sending a 1 in the appropriate location in /proc > > Basically both are last Marc Shapiros's production, with various enhancements > > (not much...) and with keycodes # completely redesigned regarding the new > > input layer. > > Note: you'd _rather_ use linux keycodes if you setup this... > > Any solution for MOL? It doesn't work for me with Linux keycodes... I didn't used mol for a while, have enough to do in the linux side... > > That's the way I'm going as well: just reverse engineer the stuff. > Change somthing and see what happens ;-) So far I've successfully made X > load some XKB stuff, but the result is totally messed up keys. Maybe > some old xmodmap setting is getting in my way... XKBModel = macintosh_old may be useful to you... > > > > And an advice: if you plan to move from XFree 4.0 to 4.0.1, have a clean > > linuxppc install not far (other partition) to recover things once your > > keyboard is completely screwed... > > Hehehehe.... For this sort of thing, I always first make backups of > config files (my xdm directory has been deleted only once by an RPM > install...), then I keep the old RPMs handy, and then I have a second > machine to telnet into the DUU (Device Under Upgrade ;-). I made regularly a complete .tbz of all my stuff, since upgrading a rpm may be easy & messy, but downgrading is really a pain. -- GoM ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/