Subject: Re: Bug in wscons (was Re: wscons & xfree)
To: Eric Delcamp <e.delcamp@wanadoo.fr>
From: Matthieu Herrb <matthieu@laas.fr>
List: current-users
Date: 02/23/1999 22:39:19
You wrote (in your message from Tue 23)
 > Hi,
 > 
 > I just want to make a bug report for this, but if someone could confirm....
 > I have a French keyboard and wscons. To get some characters (~#{[ | `\^@]}),
 > french users need to press AltGr key. But sometime (well, 3 times on 4), I
 > get nothing. A trick is to press quickly several keys to get them. From my
 > kernel config :
 > 
 > # wscons options
 > #options        WSEMUL_SUN              # sun terminal emulation
 > options         WSEMUL_VT100            # VT100 / VT220 emulation
 > # different kernel output - see dev/wscons/wsdisplayvar.h
 > options         WS_KERNEL_FG=WSCOL_GREEN
 > options         WSDISPLAY_COMPAT_PCVT           # emulate some ioctls
 > options         WSDISPLAY_COMPAT_SYSCONS        # emulate some ioctls
 > options         WSDISPLAY_COMPAT_USL            # VT handling
 > options         WSDISPLAY_COMPAT_RAWKBD         # can get raw scancodes
 > # see dev/pckbc/wskbdmap_mfii.c for implemented layouts
 > options         PCKBD_LAYOUT="(KB_FR)"
 > 

I'm using the same options as you on two machines with french
keyboards and I never saw this kind of problems (nor do I need to use
shift together with AltGr). -- 
					Matthieu