Re: [gentoo-user] Apple keyboards with Gentoo

[Benjamin Sobotta]

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 \(ED, PAR&D\) 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
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