-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 03:36:03PM +0000, Florian E. Teply wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Hello LFS folks, >> >> Currently i'm into bringing Linux to life on my trusty old Apple >> Powerbook G3. While that 'book alone is quite a bit off the beaten track >> of those x86 stuff, the keyboard is even more so. Apart from that, i'm >> not running an english keyboard layout but a german one... >> After quite a bit of research on the net i already found some generic >> german keymap for mac keyboards, but it isn't more than that: generic. >> The Problem here is, that laptops usually have keyboard layouts that are >> different from the standard desktop sort of stuff. So the keymap i >> found makes the plain alphanumerical keys work, but i'm missing a couple >> of "special" signs like the "@" sign or the Unix Pipe... >> >> Could possibly someone give me a direction on how to edit those keymaps?? >> > If you are talking about the console keyboard, I can possibly help. > X is an entirely different can of worms - I might have some old > debian URLs, but my current impression is that things which used to > work in X no longer work with 7.1 (e.g. .Xmodmap). Also, at the > moment there is an ongoing thread on debian-powerpc about trying to > fix the X keyboard definitions for macs, and it looks as if there is > a lot of variation between different machines. > Umm, well i'm talking about both the console and X. Basically i got it working both in the console and in X, with less flaws in the console. Right now it looks to me as if i just have to add some keycodes for the characters missing. There are more missing chars in X than in the console though, maybe it's got to do with the installed fonts as well.
> I'm not familiar with the details of the various models, but my > impression is that apple laptops give a mostly-American layout, and > probably don't provide certain keys because they aren't needed for > mac graphical apps (e.g. on the UK layout we get a '£' but not a > '#'). As far as my impression goes, Apple has managed to put in every new model of laptop another different keyboard. Didn't know Apple comps are THAT special ;-) > > My first mac was a G4 iBook2 (the motherboard has now died), and I > can remember many a happy hour spent with 'showkey', and searching > through the keyboard tables for the names of the characters. > Basically, it's a matter of copying the current keymap to a new > name, then editing it. Try a change, load the new map with > 'loadkeys', if it doesn't help load the old map again, if it did > help, go on to the next change. Sometimes, you might have to reboot > or power-cycle if you really screw it up and can't type all the > letters you need to restore the original map. That's why you don't > want to use the new version as the default until it is right! Good pointer! At least now i know what to do this evening ;) Looks like tomorrow i'll have a really custom-made keymap ;-) But, heck, it's me who's got to work with this baby ;-) > > My old British keytable is at > http://www.kenmoffat.uklinux.net/downloads/iBook2-uk-kbd-1.8.tar > - they aren't directly applicable, but might be instructive. > BTW, at the risk of telling you what you already know, the 'delete' > key might be on 'Fn' + '.' (a bit easier than using backspace all the > time). Well, i still gotta work out how to include those modifier keys, but thanks for the hint. Greetings, Florian - -- Langeweile? Lust auf ein fesselndes Spiel? - -> Das MorgenGrauen erwartet Dich!! http://mg.mud.de/newweb oder http://telnet.morgengrauen.info -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFKOXfgyo72NEMX5sRAv7jAJ4haXlHHuurY9xwPBFVoXO6CGQ0kwCeLeD4 YXSYiCRwClQmt55scj53UF0= =J4bA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
