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On Friday 22 December 2006 19:31, A. Khattri wrote: |
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> On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Nelson, David \(ED, PAR&D\) wrote: |
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> > I may be preaching to the converted, but have you tried Ctrl-Alt-Fx keys |
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> > to try and get a console? Does the keyboard have any odd switches to |
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> > turn the F keys on? My logitech keyboard does - to switch between |
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> > hotkeys and Fx keys. |
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> Basically, Im using an Apple USB keyboard on an amd64 box. The "Option" |
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> key (which has the word "Alt" written above it) does not function as an |
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> ALT key at all (even on the console it doesn't work). So this tells me |
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> that I need to set my keyboard map in the console and get that working |
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> first (hopefully, the key will work in X too when I solve this). |
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> Of course, I could just use a "regular" PC keyboard (though this Apple |
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> keyboard was a spare I had lying around and Ive grown fond of it). |
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> So... how do we play with the keyboard mapping in the console? |
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> A |
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Hi |
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I'm not really a Gentoo user anymore, but I follow the list every once in a |
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while. So the advice I can give applies for FreeBSD. Gentoo should be similar |
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however. |
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The keymaps for the console are to found under /usr/share/syscons/keymaps. For |
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example, german is in /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/german.cp850.kbd. Just look |
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for .kbd files in your system. |
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If you want to change X play with the files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/rules/. |
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Maybe that helps, |
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Cheers, |
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Ben |
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