German Keyboard for iBook G4

Justin Hibbits chmeeedalf at gmail.com
Wed Sep 27 19:41:44 UTC 2017


On Sep 23, 2017, at 7:09 PM, Alexander Klein wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I finally managed to massage german.iso.acc.kbd into a keymap for  
> the German iBook G4 model. All accents and umlauts work as expected,  
> and even the ring on the caret-key can be used as an accent,  
> although some unpleasant rough edges remain:
>
> A number of keys, in particular the Fn-, Apple and Enter-Key all  
> issue a scancode of 0, and things go completely haywire with NumLock  
> activated.
>
> I think this has to be fixed in the driver, and while I don't have  
> an awful lot of time to spend on the issue, I feel somewhat tempted  
> to look into it.
>
> Is there any particular place where I can submit my keymap as a  
> patch for the time being?
>
> Best regards,
>
> 	Alexander

Hi Alexander,

You can submit a bug at bugs.freebsd.org .  I periodically go through  
the powerpc-related bug list and clean it up (commit patches, test  
bugs, etc).  Others do as well.  Also, reviews.freebsd.org is a good  
place for ready-to-commit patches.

- Justin



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