I had a lot of trouble getting this working at all. First off, I blindly assumed that my keyboard was a type5, and this caused kernel panics on debian/woody, on boot, when loadkeys was run!
Once I fixed that, X was a problem. By default, the X configurator on Woody and Sid (Sid from http://people.debian.org/%7Ebranden/) puts the following into XF86Config-4: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "keyboard" Option "CoreKeyboard" Option "XkbRules" "sun" Option "XkbModel" "type6" Option "XkbLayout" "gb" EndSection Which doesn't work - backspace gives a backtick, 'v' is caps lock etc. I spent a while on Google looking for people with similar problems, and found someone who got XFree working on Sparc with a type6 keyboard. http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2001/debian-sparc-200103/msg00169.html I had to massage his config into: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "keyboard" Option "CoreKeyboard" Option "XkbRules" "sun" Option "XkbModel" "type5" Option "XkbLayout" "gb" Option "XkbCompat" "compat/complete" Option "XkbTypes" "types/complete" Option "XkbKeycodes" "sun(type5)" Option "XkbGeometry" "sun" # Option "XkbSymbols" "sun/gb(sun5)" EndSection And it works, mostly. The last XkbSymbols line had to be commented out. Now, everything works, except for the pipe/backslash key, which is generating a keycode of 106. Being a novice playing with Xkb, could someone help me out here, by telling me how I could get a pipe symbol, after messing with my keymap so much in order to get the rest working ? John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
