Re: keyboard under XF4?

On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Michel Lanners wrote:

Hi list,

This might not really be a -dev issue, but I need help anyway ;-)

I've set up my swiss-french keyboard under XF4; works partly...

What doesn't work is characters I need to type with the <alt> modifier;
they somehow get 0x80 added to the keysym before it is delivered to an
app.

xev shows the correct charcter map, keysym etc. However, it's wrong once
it appears in eg. an xterm: hitting <alt>3 should produce '#' (keysym
0x23), but in xterm the result is '�' (keysym 0xa3).

Any idea? FWIW, I'm using xmodmap to set the mapping under X. Also,
console is OK, so it's really an X issue...

Well, I have no idea what's going on for you, but I can tell you that Ben,
Olaf and me are working on a keyboard patch for 2.2.17 that will make us
mostly compatible with the usual PC keymaps for X. The kludges
(MEDIUMRAW/keymap) for PPC in XF4 will hopefully go away in 4.01, but
definetly in 4.02 then. Keep an eye on the linux-pmac-benh tree during the
next week.

The whole thing already works fine for me with USB/ADB keyboards in "new"
mode with a clean XF4, I'm currently working on the backwards compatibility
stuff for xpmac.

Franz.

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