Japanese keyboard auto-detection

[Alexander Gottwald]

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Takuma Murakami wrote:

> -- snip --
> (==) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "E0200411" (00000411) 
> (==) Using preset keyboard for "Japanese" (1041), type "7"
> (EE) No primary keyboard configured
> (==) Using compiletime defaults for keyboard
> Rules = "xfree86" Model = "jp106" Layout = "jp106" Variant = "(null)" Options = "(null)"
> -- snip --
> WinXP and Win2k both show the same log.
> 
> I think it detects the Japanese keyboard but can't get
> the appropriate setting for it.  What can I do to fix it?
> 
> By the way, a typical difference between Japanese and
> English keymaps is symbols.  In Japanese keyboards
> 'shift + 8' yields '(' while '*' in English ones.

It seems the jp106 layout definition in the xkb sources is broken.
Does "setxkbmap -v 10 jp -model jp" work for you?

bye
	ago
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