French-Canadian Keyboard & keyboard switching

[PJ]

Boris Samorodov wrote:
> On Fri, 01 May 2009 11:34:19 -0400 PJ wrote:
>   
>> Tijl Coosemans wrote:
>>     
>>> On Friday 01 May 2009 15:57:35 PJ wrote:
>>>       
>>>> The physical keyboard is a Compaq, identical layout of the Logitech I
>>>> am using on this XP. This one is set to switch beween us & canadian
>>>> multi.
>>>> But the ca(multi) setting does not work either alone or with the us
>>>> for switching. The accent keys are dead. Maybe the option for the
>>>> keys should be set to nodeadkeys.
>>>> But this is not worth pursuing as I am spending too much time on this
>>>> as is. I have things under control, it just seems strange that the
>>>> ca(multi) cannot be installed. Could be fluxbox? Oh well.
>>>>         
>>> I just tried ca(multi) under fluxbox and it just works. What version of
>>> Xorg do you have (output of "X -version")? And what is the output of
>>> "grep xkb_symbols /usr/local/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ca"?
>>>
>>>       
>> Section "ServerLayout"
>>     Identifier     "X.org Configured"
>>     Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
>>     InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
>>     InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
>>     Option    "AllowEmptyInput" "off"
>>     
>
> So you don't want to use hal...
>
>   
>> EndSection
>> Section "InputDevice"
>>     Identifier  "Keyboard0"
>>     Driver      "kbd"
>>     Option  "CoreKeyboard" "yes"
>>     Option    "XkbModel" "pc105"
>>     Option  "XkbLayout" "us,ca(multi)"
>>     Option  "XkbRules" "xorg"
>>     Option  "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle"
>>     Option  "CustomKeycodes" "on"
>> EndSection
>> ====from log:
>> (**) Option "CoreKeyboard"
>> (**) Keyboard0: always reports core events
>> (**) Option "Protocol" "standard"
>> (**) Keyboard0: Protocol: standard
>> (**) Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
>> (**) Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
>> (**) Keyboard0: XkbRules: "xorg"
>> (**) Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
>> (**) Keyboard0: XkbModel: "pc105"
>> (**) Option "XkbLayout" "us,ca(multi)"
>> (**) Keyboard0: XkbLayout: "us,ca(multi)"
>> (**) Option "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle"
>> (**) Keyboard0: XkbOptions: "grp:alt_shift_toggle"
>> (**) Option "CustomKeycodes" "on"
>> (**) Keyboard0: CustomKeycodes enabled
>> (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Keyboard0" (type: KEYBOARD)
>> (II) config/hal: Adding input device AT Keyboard
>> (**) AT Keyboard: always reports core events
>> (**) Option "Protocol" "standard"
>> (**) AT Keyboard: Protocol: standard
>> (**) Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
>> (**) Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
>> (**) AT Keyboard: XkbRules: "xorg"
>> (**) Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
>> (**) AT Keyboard: XkbModel: "pc105"
>> (**) Option "XkbLayout" "us"
>> (**) AT Keyboard: XkbLayout: "us"
>> (**) Option "CustomKeycodes" "off"
>> (**) AT Keyboard: CustomKeycodes disabled
>> (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "AT Keyboard" (type: KEYBOARD)
>>     
>
> I'm not an expert in hal, but seems that hal is used.
> May be disabling hal helps?
>
>   
>> ====
>> Any idea if "CustomKeycodes" should be used? Strange that it looks like
>> its off for one (which one} I added this but I have no idea where or if
>> it should be used. Had no effect, anyway. The switch works but the
>> ca(multi) just does not.
>> Or do we have to set up a another keyboard like Keyboard1 ? I'm lost.
>>     
>
> If you want to use hal (and configure your kdb via hal) then you may be
> interested in:
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2009-April/008185.html
>
>
> WBR
>   
Don't trust it. Too complicated. ;-)

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