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voidmain:

quote:Originally posted by Cane:
well if "PrintScrn/SysRq" is Quit and Esc doesnt do anything, and "Shift ;" Gives me a @ sign then I must have the wrong keyboard drivers!!

Grr linux is hard to use when something is wrong!
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And that's the way I like it. Let me ask you this, when you first log in and are at a shell prompt, what do you get when you press the same key combination (<SHIFT>+ ;) ? If you get a ":" then it's not a keyboard driver problem. But if it happens on the command line too then maybe the answer lies in a link a few messages down from this one.

[ December 06, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

choasforages:
actally, he might have some merit. i tried to install the german version of beos/*i know a little german*/ and all the keys were different places and such. and i think what you are asking about is a differnet keymap. i don't know how to change the keymap though

Calum:
here's what you need to do:
quote:Originally posted by LorKorub / BOB:
I don't thin you need drivers. I think all you need is to reconfigure X so that you can use the appropriate keyboard.

As root, run /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config

The second through fourth screens all have to deal with your keyboard. Select the approrpiate configuration (I used US-QWERTY...that's for a US keyboard.) You will have to enter in all of the information pertaining to your hardware. Make sure you have info on your monitor's vertical and horizontal sync range, and your graphics card. At the end, it will ask you if you would like to write to /usr/X11R6/bin/... say no. Answer no to the nest one, and no to the one after that. When it asks, where should I write it, type in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.
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let me just repeat that:
quote:Originally posted by LorKorub / BOB:
I don't thin you need drivers. I think all you need is to reconfigure X so that you can use the appropriate keyboard.

As root, run /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config

The second through fourth screens all have to deal with your keyboard. Select the approrpiate configuration (I used US-QWERTY...that's for a US keyboard.) You will have to enter in all of the information pertaining to your hardware. Make sure you have info on your monitor's vertical and horizontal sync range, and your graphics card. At the end, it will ask you if you would like to write to /usr/X11R6/bin/... say no. Answer no to the nest one, and no to the one after that. When it asks, where should I write it, type in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.
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before you do use this program, backup your existing /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file if you have one (and you will, if you ever ran XFree 4.x) by doing
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some distros have additional tools which do the same job, i know red hat has one called XConfigurator which does the same job...

[ December 06, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]

KernelPanic:
While we are on this topic, how can you change the keymap used in shell?
Thing is, I did the hdinstall of knoppix and I changed the language and keymap for X to UK, but at a terminal I have bloody german characters and characters like : @ # ? } [ %

voidmain:
In RedHat it is loaded in the /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit startup script based on what is in the /etc/sysconfig/keyboard configuration file. And there is also a "keytable" service so it can be changed on the fly. And of course RedHat also has a graphical tool for this on the menu if you want to do it that way (which does nothing more than change the contents /etc/sysconfig/keyboard).

There's an example here for Debian:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-euro-support/ch-configure.en.html

It should be the same in Knoppix.

[ December 06, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

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