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Hi, all! |
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It's been a while since I bothered this list last, but of course that's |
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been because I've been having more success than usual! :) (Well, |
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unless you count the apparent death of my main PC...) |
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Anyway, thanks to Xautoconfig, which was smart enough to realize it |
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needed to use /dev/fb0 instead of complaining, I've now got a working |
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Xfree86 with Window Maker and Mozilla (even stripped of composer, IRC |
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and such, 30+ hours compiling, wheeee) so I can survive for a while. |
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There are two main things bugging me right now, though, and they are the |
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mouse and the keyboard. |
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First, the mouse: A Kensington Orbit, via a PS/2-to-ADB converter that |
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came in the box with it, plugged into the original Mac keyboard on this |
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Power Mac 8600/200. This is a two-button mouse, so I made sure to set |
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"CONFIG_MAC_EMUMOUSEBTN=y" when building my kernel. However, both gpm |
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and X see the right button as button 2. (I checked this using xev.) |
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Shouldn't it be button 3, with 2 emulated by pressing them both at once? |
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I have tried adding -2 and -B (123|132) to the gpm command, with no |
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change in its behavior. Does anyone know how to fix this? |
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Next, the keyboard: As far as I know, this is the original keyboard -- |
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105 keys if you count the Power key in the upper right corner. I use a |
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"dvorak" mapping, which is set in /etc/rc.conf, and this works fine in |
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text consoles. However, in X the arrow key that should be "Right" is |
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seen as "Home" (also according to xev). I know I could probably use xkb |
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or xmodmap to change this, but I'm hoping there's a simple and cleaner |
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solution -- after all, this keyboard has been around long enough that |
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lots of people must have dealt with it. :) |
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Here's the keyboard section from XF86Config-4: |
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Section "InputDevice" |
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Identifier "Keyboard0" |
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Driver "keyboard" |
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Option "CustomKeycodes" |
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Option "XkbModel" "macintosh" |
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Option "XkbRules" "xfree" |
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Option "XkbLayout" "us" |
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EndSection |
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Does anyone know of settings that would work better? My only attempt |
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so far at changing the keyboard left me with a garbled mess! |
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Thanks, |
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// Carl Hudkins :: Jabber yther <at> amessage.info :: PGP 50238D9E |
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// |
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// "German beer is chemical-free / Germany's all right with me!" |
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// --"Why Aye Man", Mark Knopfler |
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