Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:51:43 -0400 From: PJ <af.gourmet@videotron.ca> To: PJ <af.gourmet@videotron.ca>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: French-Canadian Keyboard & keyboard switching Message-ID: <49F75E4F.9050200@videotron.ca> In-Reply-To: <20090428182346.GA23945@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> References: <49F6DDAC.60800@videotron.ca> <20090428182346.GA23945@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk>
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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
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