On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 07:37:35AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Wouter Verhelst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Package: console-data > > Version: 2:1.07-3 > > Severity: wishlist > > > > Hi, > > > > console-data currently contains a number of keymaps that exist from > > pre-2.6 days. Before version 2.6 of the Linux kernel, a keymap had to be > > made on an architecture-specific way; since the key codes of a PC > > keyboard were not the same as that of, say, a Macintosh ADB keyboard, > > the keymaps had to account for this difference. > > > > In 2.6, however, the kernel accounts for this difference; now, all > > keycodes are translated to their PC equivalent; as such, a keymap that > > works on a PC will now also work on a Macintosh, or on any other > > architecture. > > > > Since loading a keymap that assumes architecture-specific keycodes > > renders a keyboard fairly unusable, and since Debian hasn't supported > > pre-2.6 kernels for a while now, it's probably best, in the interest of > > avoiding confusion, to remove these outdated keycodes. > > > > Of course I don't know about *all* possible keymaps; but I can say with > > certainty that the "mac-*" keymaps (except for the "mac-usb-*" ones) can > > all safely be removed. > > While I generally agree with you, I feel like I don't have the needed > expertise to be sure doing this safely. > > I maintain console-data as much as I can, without all the needed > skills to do it..:-) > > So, as long as I'm alone working on it, I'll be *very* > conservative with it. Of course, even more as we're close to lenny > release.
That makes sense. After all, it's the main reason why I made this a wishlist bug, rather than a normal one... ;-) But I can guarantee you that the "mac-*" keymaps are currently broken. This bug was filed after I'd loaded one of them once too many on one of my m68k macs... > I would very much welcome any help (or Alastair coming back to work > deeper on it) to prepare a good post-lenny version, cleaned out from > many many old cruft we keep in there (just check all possible variants > of French and German keymaps for instance). I don't think there's anyone on this world who knows what the correct keymaps are by heart. I think you basically have two options: - Decode the keymaps, and figure out whether a key such as "e" (which is in the same position on almost all keymaps) has the correct key number (perhaps use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout to verify). In theory this should be possible, but it's quite some work. - Start a wiki page and have people submit comments on whether a keymap is still useful. -- <Lo-lan-do> Home is where you have to wash the dishes. -- #debian-devel, Freenode, 2004-09-22 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
