From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 28 19:51:49 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF416106566B for ; Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:51:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from af.gourmet@videotron.ca) Received: from relais.videotron.ca (relais.videotron.ca [24.201.245.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8623B8FC16 for ; Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:51:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from af.gourmet@videotron.ca) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Received: from [192.168.0.51] ([96.21.103.185]) by VL-MO-MR005.ip.videotron.ca (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-4.01 (built Aug 3 2007; 32bit)) with ESMTP id <0KIT009WOTSD6UF1@VL-MO-MR005.ip.videotron.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:50:39 -0400 (EDT) Message-id: <49F75E4F.9050200@videotron.ca> Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:51:43 -0400 From: PJ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) To: PJ , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <49F6DDAC.60800@videotron.ca> <20090428182346.GA23945@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> In-reply-to: <20090428182346.GA23945@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> Cc: Subject: Re: French-Canadian Keyboard & keyboard switching X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:51:49 -0000 Frank Shute wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 06:42:52AM -0400, PJ wrote: > >> I am rather surprised and disappointed that no one has any ideas about >> using and/or installing a French-Canadian keyboard on FreeBSD. That is a >> terrible bug in FreeBSD and a worse slur on the Québecois (or >> Quebeckers) or are we being neglected and still considered "The White >> Niggers of America"? ;-) >> Anyway, everything I have tried does not work on FreeBSD or on xorg. >> Cannot set it up or switch. >> Somebody, please help. >> >> > > Have you tried: > > Option "XkbLayout" "ca(fr)" > > in your keyboard/inputdevice section of xorg.conf? > > For the console you want to have a look at kbdmap(1) and the list of > maps. > > Looks like you want: > > keymap="fr_CA.iso.acc" > > in /etc/rc.conf > > > Regards, > > I probably should have posted all the stuff I tried. My apologies. Yes, I had tried similar Options as described in a number of sites, including, I think FreeBSD and Xorg. Only the man pages showed different inputs. I don't know where you got the fr_CA.iso.acc; my installation showed the available keymaps as fr_CA.iso.acc.kbd kbdmap -s returns You are not on a virtual console - expect strange side effects lang_default = en dialect = fr_...ISO8859-1 lang_abk = fr Currently supported languages: da de el en es fr hy iw no pl pt ru sv uk ===== Interesting, eh? where does fr_CA fit in and how? For Xorg here is what I had found on http://markmail.org/messsage/yvq7qqnqhq33hqgf Option "XkbModel" "pc104" Option "XkbLayout" "us,ca" Option "XkbOptions" "grp:toggle" That is what I had tried; it didn't work. I had tried keymap="fr_CA.iso.acc.kbd" and that gave(gives) the correct keyboard on the console. Except, it spews out French error messages (tiresome=ennuiyant). The Option "XkbLayout" "us,ca" - I have no idea where it comes from and I sure would like to know what to enter for that to try it out. And where does the "grp:toggle" come from? I just went through the same routine and I can't find any combination that works with the information I have been able to gather. :-( -- Hervé Kempf: "Pour sauver la planète, sortez du capitalisme." ------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Jourdan --- pj@ptahhotep.com http://www.ptahhotep.com http://www.chiccantine.com/andypantry.php