Hello, I do not intend to intimidate anyone, but I am very disturbed by the disfunctionality of the keyboard input in Lenny and testing/squeeze. It is my hope this will be tested again, since it did work in Etch, but never to my knowledge in Lenny, nor in Testing, as I just built it.
Now, I want to use keyboard map "se-latin1" and I expect it to produce identical output in every virtual console. No talking about graphical context! Well, the keyboard map is functional in at most one tty at a time, and it is disabled after reboot, even though dpgk-reconfigure is allowed to act on "console-data" and "locales". One clue that I do not understand yet, is a complaint from dpkg-reconfigure when acting on "console-data", that "--print-installation-architecture" is made obsolete, but the corresponding config-script only includes the more recent switch, so somehow the is a mixture of mechanisms involved here. My problem lies in vowels with diacritical signs, like umlaut-vowels, apostrophed vowels and so on. Most of the time there is no output at all. It does not matter, wether I use a locale "sv_SE" or "sv_SE.UTF-8". Sometimes digraphs are printed, other times the correct vowels are printed from programs, but I cannot input them at the keyboard. I cannot accept a dependency on utf-8 in order to use a native keyboard map. Sorry for that. Please bear with me, but can you honestly claim to have managed to use your native language with a non-us keyboard on more that one virtual console. I can only do it on my Etch installations! And I am pretty sore from figuring out how to repair Lenny. You are welcome to correct me if I am wrong, but my failure to set up Squeeze with a swedish keyboard really makes me disappointed. Thus this pledge. I intended the install to test the "realloc-problem" but I am now very distracted. With regards Mats Erik Andersson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
