This is all a lot less important given this morning's events, but it is
nice to have X working so I can use a graphival browser, etc. Thanks
Michel!
Michel D�nzer wrote:
On Tue, 2001-09-11 at 00:08, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
[ broken keymap with XFree86 4.1.0 ]
I tried both "macintosh" and "pc101" in dpkg-reconfigure
xserver-xfree86, both of which should give the correct mappings for the
new input layer (which I've been using since it first arrived in
kernel-image-2.2.18pre21-pmac), right?
"macintosh" should for a Mac keyboard, the "pcxxx" XkbModels are for PC
keyboards.
Right, but macintosh and pc101 caused exactly the same pattern of
breakage, just about the same mappings ("`1234" -> "merty") as far as I
could tell.
Second problem: using gdm and gnome-session, the mouse stops working
after the first logout, that is, the mouse is frozen at the second gdm
login screen. I observed this behavior also on an i386 system freshly
installed with X 4.1.0 three weeks ago (but not on previously-installed
continuously-upgraded systems), and switched to /dev/gpmdata, which
solved it for some time, then it broke again, so I removed gpm.
Unfortunately, there is no /dev/gpmdata on PPC,
Of course there is, you just have to configure gpm accordingly. It
shouldn't be necessary though as /dev/input/mice works with any number
of processes using it.
Okay, the keyboard works now (see below), I'll find out if the mouse
problem is solved soon, by logging out and back in...
Ethan Benson wrote:
switch the kernel to use linux keycodes.
Done that (long since).
Are you sure? /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes
doesn't exist or contains 1?
As we say in New York, "Akhaa!" The file exists and contains zero.
Replacing it with one solved the problem.
But wait, didn't we all switch to Linux keycodes way back in December
when 2.2.18pre21 hit potato? We had to use Linux keycodes for button
emulation, shouldn't that have meant that we were using Linux keycodes?
And is it not a bug that with zero in that /proc entry, the kernel uses
two different keymaps for the two functions (button emulation and normal
keyboard use)?
Not that this means anything, nor that I'm any expert, but if I was this
confused, how about a newbie? Should there be some kind of
auto-detection of HID and keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes in the .config
and/or .postinst of the xserver, to detect and advise or correct such a
situation? Or are we all comfortable with just letting lots of users
get frustrated and confused, as with last December's change?
Thanks again for the help, but still somewhat confused,
--
-Adam P.
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