French-Canadian Keyboard & keyboard switching

[Boris Samorodov]

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


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