Hi R, Am Tuesday 10 November 2009 09:45:42 schrieb TheOldFellow: >... > Well my problems so far have all been about convincing Xorg-7.5 with > Hal to let me type with my uk keyboard. It used to be simple in the > old days, but now Hal gets to play, it ain't - and Hal is obsolete too! > I said it was fun. The notes in Ch23 on setting up keyboards are thus > out of date, but I'm not sure yet if I have the correct solution, so > I've put it in the wiki. Uh yes, Xorg. I wasn't really lucky with the first try on 7.5. Became a bit better after I enabled the experimental radeon stuff in Mesa - but all in all it was not really a success. I'll start over and review package by package... (less fun) > > You'd think that the software would be the tricky bit, but the name of > your country! The United Kingdom is universally - including US > Immigration - known as uk, but Hal or xorg insist it's gb, for some > reason. Great Britain is an island of the north coast of France, > country wise it houses England, Wales and Scotland, but not Northern > Ireland, so GB is technically incorrect. Still, mustn't sound off, > it's not BLFS's fault. LOL, maybe there is a keyboard layout especially for the island, something like a derivation of the UK layout ? ;-) > > R.
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