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RE: Problem with keyboard

Douglas Wagner
Mon, 1 Feb 1999 10:33:46 -0500

Wow, welcome to the list...um...the only thing I could think of is you've 
got permissions set wrong...but i'm not sure what device (is there a 
/dev/keyboard device guys?) and why it wouldn't be set right...

Doug

-----Original Message-----
From:   Matthew Norton [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:   Monday, February 01, 1999 9:16 AM
To:     [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:        Problem with keyboard

Hello all.

I should just briefly introduce myself before firing away my first (and
I'm sure there will be more in the near future).  My name is Matt
Norton, I'm a grad student at the Universite de Montreal, and I'm a new
Linux user.  I'd thought about it for some time over the last couple of
years (particularly the last 12 months), but while working on a
conference presentation over the holidays, my Win OS was crashing at
least twice daily, and that was the last straw.  I am now working as
much as I can in Linux, and trying to learn.

Now that  the pleasantries are done, I can go forward with the question.
When I log in as root, my keyboard works fine, but with any other user
profile,  I get an error from xkbcomp saying bad geometry, and thus
giving me a pre-XKB keyboard with no backspace.  I looked at the
Keyboard HOWTO, but no answer seemed self evident.  Anyway, I'm running
RedHat 5.2 (2.0.36 Kernel) on a I-3000.  Any thoughts?

Matt Norton

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