Re: xkb-data: Help needed for Macintosh keyboards

2006-09-03 Thread Simon Vallet
Hi, I just tested xkb-data_0.8-10exp1_all.deb from http://people.debian.org/barbier/tmp/ extracted to ~/XKB and symlinked /usr/share/lib/X11/xkb to it : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/XKB/usr/share/X11/xkb$ ls -l /usr/share/X11/xkb lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 2006-09-03 20:14 /usr/share/X11/xkb -> /home/sjv/

Re: xkb-data: Help needed for Macintosh keyboards

2006-08-30 Thread Ben Mueller
OK, I did another test with xkb-data 0.8-9exp1. On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Ben Mueller wrote: > First I switched to > XkbRules: xorg > XkbModel: pc105 > XkbLayout: de > XkbVariant: mac_nodeadkeys > XkbOptions: lv3:lalt_switch > which is also provided by xkb-data 0.8-8 in unstable. This

Re: xkb-data: Help needed for Macintosh keyboards

2006-08-30 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 06:22:27PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > > The xkbcomp output when (hopefully) .xmodmap is loaded: > > Please note that Geocities does not seem to accept an .xkb extension > when uploading files to my homepage. So I renamed it to a .txt file: > > $ xkbcomp :0 -o s

Re: xkb-data: Help needed for Macintosh keyboards

2006-08-30 Thread Ben Mueller
Hi, I'm very happy that someone is taking care of the macintosh keyboards! First I switched to XkbRules: xorg XkbModel: pc105 XkbLayout:de XkbVariant: mac_nodeadkeys XkbOptions: lv3:lalt_switch which is also provided by xkb-data 0.8-8 in unstable. This is working well e

Re: xkb-data: Help needed for Macintosh keyboards

2006-08-30 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 06:22:27PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > Hi Denis > > On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 10:48:15PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > > > > 5. What informations should be reported? > >= > > > > And here's the one made with the settings as sh

Re: xkb-data: Help needed for Macintosh keyboards

2006-08-30 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi Denis On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 10:48:15PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > > 5. What informations should be reported? >= > > Everything ;) > Basically I have to make sure that there are no regressions before > this package can be uploaded into unstable. Th

Re: xkb-data: Help needed for Macintosh keyboards

2006-08-29 Thread Denis Barbier
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 11:16:18PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: [...] > > This option should also work for any Debian-based distribution with > > X.Org 7.0. > > So, folk running sarge will not be able to make this experiment, right ? IIRC I had problems with X.Org releases prior to 7.0, but I do no

Re: xkb-data: Help needed for Macintosh keyboards

2006-08-29 Thread Sven Luther
Thanks for this more detailed information. On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 10:48:15PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > 3. How to install it? >== > > Sid users can install it directly. As it has not been tested at all, > your X server may hang up or your keyboard may be fully broken, so

Re: xkb-data: Help needed for Macintosh keyboards

2006-08-29 Thread Denis Barbier
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 02:03:33AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: [...] > Mmm, altough i have only a US keyboard powerbook, i would willingly test this, > as this is a major problematic point for mac keyboards. > > I have two questions though : > > 1) how do you detect you have a pmac keyboard, and

Re: xkb-data: Help needed for Macintosh keyboards

2006-08-29 Thread Simon Vallet
Hi, On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 01:24:02 +0200 Denis Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just uploaded xkb-data_0.8-8exp1_all.deb into experimental to > try to fix this mess. Unfortunately I also have no Mac keyboard, > so I could not test it at all and need your help to find and fix > bugs. When ev

Re: xkb-data: Help needed for Macintosh keyboards

2006-08-29 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi Denis On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 01:24:02AM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > Hi folks, > > PC keyboards have been redesigned in Xfree86 4.3 to allow loading > several layouts (for instance us+ru+fr); in xkeyboard-config, all > previous PC layouts have been dropped and replaced by these new > layouts

Re: xkb-data: Help needed for Macintosh keyboards

2006-08-29 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 01:24:02AM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > Hi folks, > > PC keyboards have been redesigned in Xfree86 4.3 to allow loading > several layouts (for instance us+ru+fr); in xkeyboard-config, all > previous PC layouts have been dropped and replaced by these new > layouts. > But Ma

Re: xkb-data: Help needed for Macintosh keyboards

2006-08-28 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 01:24:02AM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > Hi folks, > > PC keyboards have been redesigned in Xfree86 4.3 to allow loading > several layouts (for instance us+ru+fr); in xkeyboard-config, all > previous PC layouts have been dropped and replaced by these new > layouts. > But Ma

xkb-data: Help needed for Macintosh keyboards

2006-08-28 Thread Denis Barbier
Hi folks, PC keyboards have been redesigned in Xfree86 4.3 to allow loading several layouts (for instance us+ru+fr); in xkeyboard-config, all previous PC layouts have been dropped and replaced by these new layouts. But Macintosh keyboards have not been updated, mainly because upstream does not hav