Re: [gentoo-user] Apple keyboards with Gentoo
On Friday 22 December 2006 19:31, A. Khattri wrote: On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Nelson, David \(ED, PARD\) wrote: I may be preaching to the converted, but have you tried Ctrl-Alt-Fx keys to try and get a console? Does the keyboard have any odd switches to turn the F keys on? My logitech keyboard does - to switch between hotkeys and Fx keys. Basically, Im using an Apple USB keyboard on an amd64 box. The Option key (which has the word Alt written above it) does not function as an ALT key at all (even on the console it doesn't work). So this tells me that I need to set my keyboard map in the console and get that working first (hopefully, the key will work in X too when I solve this). Of course, I could just use a regular PC keyboard (though this Apple keyboard was a spare I had lying around and Ive grown fond of it). So... how do we play with the keyboard mapping in the console? -- A Hi I'm not really a Gentoo user anymore, but I follow the list every once in a while. So the advice I can give applies for FreeBSD. Gentoo should be similar however. The keymaps for the console are to found under /usr/share/syscons/keymaps. For example, german is in /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/german.cp850.kbd. Just look for .kbd files in your system. If you want to change X play with the files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/rules/. Maybe that helps, Cheers, Ben -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Apple keyboards with Gentoo
Hi again. Maybe you can also have a look for example at the xorg.lst file in the rules directory for X and then adjust your xorg.conf properly... B On Saturday 23 December 2006 18:27, Benjamin Sobotta wrote: On Friday 22 December 2006 19:31, A. Khattri wrote: On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Nelson, David \(ED, PARD\) wrote: I may be preaching to the converted, but have you tried Ctrl-Alt-Fx keys to try and get a console? Does the keyboard have any odd switches to turn the F keys on? My logitech keyboard does - to switch between hotkeys and Fx keys. Basically, Im using an Apple USB keyboard on an amd64 box. The Option key (which has the word Alt written above it) does not function as an ALT key at all (even on the console it doesn't work). So this tells me that I need to set my keyboard map in the console and get that working first (hopefully, the key will work in X too when I solve this). Of course, I could just use a regular PC keyboard (though this Apple keyboard was a spare I had lying around and Ive grown fond of it). So... how do we play with the keyboard mapping in the console? -- A Hi I'm not really a Gentoo user anymore, but I follow the list every once in a while. So the advice I can give applies for FreeBSD. Gentoo should be similar however. The keymaps for the console are to found under /usr/share/syscons/keymaps. For example, german is in /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/german.cp850.kbd. Just look for .kbd files in your system. If you want to change X play with the files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/rules/. Maybe that helps, Cheers, Ben -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Apple keyboards with Gentoo
On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Nelson, David \(ED, PARD\) wrote: I may be preaching to the converted, but have you tried Ctrl-Alt-Fx keys to try and get a console? Does the keyboard have any odd switches to turn the F keys on? My logitech keyboard does - to switch between hotkeys and Fx keys. Basically, Im using an Apple USB keyboard on an amd64 box. The Option key (which has the word Alt written above it) does not function as an ALT key at all (even on the console it doesn't work). So this tells me that I need to set my keyboard map in the console and get that working first (hopefully, the key will work in X too when I solve this). Of course, I could just use a regular PC keyboard (though this Apple keyboard was a spare I had lying around and Ive grown fond of it). So... how do we play with the keyboard mapping in the console? -- A -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Apple keyboards with Gentoo
A. Khattri a écrit : Anyone using an Apple USB keyboard with Gentoo Linux? Specifically, Im running XFCE4 and want to figure out how to map some keys and get some missing functionality. How can I set these up with X11/XFCE? Also, I can't seem to switch between X11 and the console (I think I can't even switch consoles outside of X11) Anyone have any pointers / FAQs? (I already Googled and an archive search proved fruitless). I have a G4 iMac with a USB keyboard. My problem with (Gentoo) Linux was to get the French keyboard to work. I did not solve it myself, but I made use of the work of others: http://www.linux-france.org/macintosh/clavier_gentoo.html http://www.linux-france.org/macintosh/clavier_v4.html This may not be very closely related to your case, but there would be no harm in looking at those links to see what those people have done (if you can manage to read French). With the best. Charles -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Apple keyboards with Gentoo
-Original Message- From: Charles Trois [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 December 2006 09:31 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Apple keyboards with Gentoo A. Khattri a écrit : Anyone using an Apple USB keyboard with Gentoo Linux? Specifically, Im running XFCE4 and want to figure out how to map some keys and get some missing functionality. How can I set these up with X11/XFCE? Also, I can't seem to switch between X11 and the console (I think I can't even switch consoles outside of X11) Anyone have any pointers / FAQs? (I already Googled and an archive search proved fruitless). I may be preaching to the converted, but have you tried Ctrl-Alt-Fx keys to try and get a console? Does the keyboard have any odd switches to turn the F keys on? My logitech keyboard does - to switch between hotkeys and Fx keys. David Note: These views are my own, advice is provided with no guarantee of success. I do not represent anyone else in any emails I send to this list. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
