Thanks! That did the trick... I guess I overlooked the keyboard section because all I did was copy some other person's XF86Config file (who also has a Thinkpad 770). Hehehe... At 09:24 AM 11/8/2000 -0800, Heather wrote: > > Thanks for the suggestions guys, my mouse now works properly after I got > > rid of gpm. However, when I enter Gnome now and start Gnome Terminal, > some > > of my keys on the Thinkpad are not mapped correctly. For example, when I > > press the "/" key, I get a "-" (which was almost disastrous as I was > trying > > to search something in dselect and ended up almost uninstalling some > random > > apps) and when I press "&" I get "/" and other weirdness. It's probably a > > keyboard setting file or something right? Can you point me to the right > > direction? It works fine in the regular console (non-X) of course... > > > > Still learning... > >Check your /etc/X11/XF86Config file, it should have a > Section "Keyboard" > >...in there, one of the settings is for which language keyboard you have, >for example, a standard American one with stupid-windoze-keys is > XkbModel "pc104" > XkbLayout "us" > >Note, most thinkpads do not have MSwin keys, so your XkbModel is probably >different. However, I mention this because if the model of keyboard is >too insanely wrong, it could also misplace the keycodes wildly like you >described. pc104 should be a harmless extension over a normal 101 or 102 >key layout though. > >One possible way to get a GUI to fix it is to use XF86Setup. I *strongly* >urge you to make an extra copy of your /etc/X11/XF86Config first though, >as it might get your keyboard right, but if you've forgotten your video >characteristics right when it asks them, you could get those seriously >screwed up. > >* Heather Stern * star@ many places... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
