Can't map a Spanish keyboard on Current but in FreeBSD 7.4-STABLE it works fin.

eculp eculp at encontacto.net
Mon Aug 8 13:48:29 UTC 2011


Quoting Tom Evans <tevans.uk at googlemail.com>:

> On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 12:07 AM, eculp <eculp at encontacto.net> wrote:
>> I'm running kde on both and 7.4 works equally well with ttys and with
>> kde4-4.6.5.
>>
>> My FreeBSD 9.0-BETA1 works with ttys but not even close with kde4-4.6.5.
>>
>> Is this me or could it be kde or Current?  There doesn't seem to be any
>> changes in the language files spanish.iso.acc.kbd, for example.
>>
>> I've been tolerating this for the last week since setting it up with Beta1.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> ed
>
> Have you told hald that the keyboard has a different layout?
>
> IE, do you have this:
>
>> $ cat /usr/local/etc/hal/fdi/policy/x11-input.fdi
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
> <deviceinfo version="0.2">
>   <device>
>     <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keyboard">
>       <merge key="input.x11_options.XkbLayout" type="string">es</merge>
>     </match>
>   </device>
> </deviceinfo>
>

Works Great.  Thanks Tom.  I don't have that file on 7.4 but it works  
too.  I've seen changes to hald on the list but haven't paid enough  
attention.

Thanks again.  That makes my life soooooo much better.

ed
>
> Cheers
>
> Tom
>



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