Keyboard layout

[Selim Abou-Samra]

Hello,

I just installed NetBSD 1.3.3 on my Quadra 610 : It's all fine, no booting problems etc... ((-:

BUT : I couldn't figure out how to change the layout of the keyboard : I have a french (AZERTY) keyboard. What is the simplest way to solve this problem (apart from buying an ISO kbd :)

soory if this is a trivial question, but i found no answer in the FAQ )-:

thanks for your replies,
sel!m

[Hauke Fath]

At 10:15 Uhr +0100 22.02.1999, Selim Abou-Samra wrote:

>I just installed NetBSD 1.3.3 on my Quadra 610 : It's all fine, no booting
>problems etc... ((-:

That's good to hear. =8)

>BUT : I couldn't figure out how to change the layout of the keyboard : I
>have a french (AZERTY) keyboard. What is the simplest way to solve this
>problem (apart from buying an ISO kbd :)

In ascending difficulty:

o get dt (I think it's in the package system now) and build it with
a French kbd map

o set up X11 and a French Xmodmap for it (there is a German
Xmodmap file on ftp.netbsd.org that you could take as a starting point)

o port the wscons driver to mac68k ;)

... and see Colin's great FAQ.

hauke

--
"It's never straight up and down" (DEVO)

[Colin Wood]

Hauke Fath wrote:
> At 10:15 Uhr +0100 22.02.1999, Selim Abou-Samra wrote:
>
> >I just installed NetBSD 1.3.3 on my Quadra 610 : It's all fine, no booting
> >problems etc... ((-:
>
> That's good to hear. =8)
>
> >BUT : I couldn't figure out how to change the layout of the keyboard : I
> >have a french (AZERTY) keyboard. What is the simplest way to solve this
> >problem (apart from buying an ISO kbd :)
>
> In ascending difficulty:
>
> o get dt (I think it's in the package system now) and build it with
> a French kbd map

it is in the package system

> o set up X11 and a French Xmodmap for it (there is a German
> Xmodmap file on ftp.netbsd.org that you could take as a starting point)

i thought we had a french one as well....i guess not, tho.

> o port the wscons driver to mac68k ;)

well, once we get a standard display driver, this one's not too far off.
we'll still have to generate the various keyboard mappings, tho, since mac
keyboards don't have the same keycodes as the various pc keyboards, to the
best of my knowledge.

btw, there is another option:

o grab a copy of sys/arch/mac68k/include/keyboard.h and edit it to match
your keyboard's layout. then recompile the kernel.

i suppose this is probably harder than the first 2 things above, but
easier than getting wscons to work ;-)

later.

colin