Folks (Thanks to Ferris McCormick and Patrick McGlennon for help on earlier X Server Problems posted by me earlier in week. It worked. Really appreciated).
So after two months, I was finally able to load KDM. It worked beautifully on my Ultra 10 sparc and I set about reconfiguring the desktop. One of the first things I noticed was that the keyboard type strange characters in Abiword and the console. This was strange as prior to getting X to work, all my keys were fine (apart from the keyboard seeming to be in US mode.) I was confident however of restting my keyboard to UK from within KDM but the settings that I choose in keyboard did not seem to reset it to UK so I decided to reboot in the hope that my keyboard layout problems would disappear. BOY, what a mistake. I am now left staring at a GNOME Desktop login screen where only some alphabetic keys work and the ones that work type alternative characters such as p=o, y=t, t=r, o = i etc. I would have been able to get around this as I have mapped all the keys which correspond to the login 'root' and my password but it doesn't allow the administrator to log in from this screen so I have to use my own name 'kevin' but I cannot get the characters for 'v' or 'n' to appear so I am pretty much locked out. Can anyone help or can anyone tell me the command that I can type at the lilo prompt to enter perhaps some sort of console that might allow me to log in as 'root' and fix my keyboard problem. regards Kevin
