Re: port-macppc/51255: Unable to utilise keyboard layout variants

[Leonardo Taccari <leot%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-macppc/51255; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Leonardo Taccari <leot%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-macppc/51255: Unable to utilise keyboard layout variants
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2016 11:38:51 +0200

 Hello Sevan,
 
 venture37%geeklan.co.uk@localhost writes:
 > >Number:         51255
 > >Category:       port-macppc
 > >Synopsis:       Unable to utilise keyboard layout variants
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       non-critical
 > >Priority:       low
 > >Responsible:    port-macppc-maintainer
 > >State:          open
 > >Class:          sw-bug
 > >Submitter-Id:   net
 > >Arrival-Date:   Sun Jun 19 01:15:00 +0000 2016
 > >Originator:     Sevan Janiyan
 > >Release:        NetBSD-HEAD
 > >Organization:
 > >Environment:
 > >Description:
 > On a 12" PowerBook G4 running NetBSD/macppc it's not possible to
 > use a variant layout for the keyboard.  The keyboard remains a
 > qwerty layout despite switching to colemak or dvorak.  Switching
 > language without a variant works as intended.
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > run
 > wsconsctl -k -w encoding=us.dvorak
 Is it an adbkbd(4)? (`dmesg | wskbd' or `drvctl -lt' will probably help)
 
 In that case from a very quick look it seems that
 src/sys/dev/adb/adb_keymap.h doesn't know about some variants like
 Colemak and Dvorak layouts and they need to be added.
 
 
 HTH!