I recently purchased a MacBook Pro (the new model) with the express purpose of getting Gentoo on it. Well, that was not a simple task. The most annoying thing was the keyboard. The physical layout is a more or less standard Danish qwerty layout, but no of the layouts in X would convince the MacBook of actually printing the character that was on the key. It took about a week or so of trial and error in "/usr/share/X11/xkb" to produce a layout that worked and was choosable with the Gnome Keyboard Preferences application. I've no idea on how to submit patches to Xorg so I hereby submit a tar-ball with my modified xkb files in the hope that they can get into the Gentoo tree.
Created attachment 132730 [details] Modified xkb files You will need to add: "/usr/bin/eject" XF86Eject to your ~/.xbindkeysrc file if you want the Eject key to work.
colding@athero ~/work/src/omc/evolution-brutus $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.3.9 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r4, 2.6.22-gentoo-r8 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.22-gentoo-r8 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7700 @ 2.40GHz Timestamp of tree: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 13:20:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r5 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.9-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.21 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.uni-c.dk/pub/gentoo/ http://gentoo.tiscali.nl/ http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl alsa amd64 avahi avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr cli colordiff cracklib crypt cscope cups dbus dri dvd dvdr emacs gdbm gnome gphoto2 gpm gtk hal iconv ipv6 jpeg lm-sensors madwifi midi mmx mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia openmp pam pcre perl png pppd python readline reflection session spl sse sse2 ssl tao tcpd tetex toolkit-scroll-bars truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode wifi xorg xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv vesa vga" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
This goes to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/ - xkeyboard-config product, not here. :)
OK, thanks. Submitted.
