On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Benjamin F. Zhou wrote: > Hi Debianers, > > thank all the helps and tips I got from you at this great list, I successfully > setup X on my good old CPQ Armada1110 (P75, 2GB, 24MB RAM) with German > keyboard. > There is nothing I can complain about performance compared to Win98. Really > great > ! > > Everything works fine now, except the 4 special German keys don't work. Then I > noticed they don't work even outside X. I did choose German Keyboard at > installation. What could I have done wrong at setup. Where should I look for a > corresponding *.conf file. > Will these special keys work at all? > > thank you! > > Ben > in New York > hello,
to get your special keys work, try the followin choose as keymap german-latin1-nodeadkeys and setup in /etc/enivorment LANG="de_DE", but beware that you will get german system messages. There are a lot more options please have a look at the GERMAN-HOWTO. Gruss Henning http://www.physik.tu-cottbus.de/users/heinold
