Hello,
Gentoo is nearly operational on my G4 iMac, but there are one or two
catches.
--1-- KDE works and I have been able to install a proper French
Macintosh keyboard, but some characters, such as the Euro symbol, are
not printed. I understand that I have to choose another font (or
character set, or what not, I am very ignorant). I have read about
lat0-16, lat1-16, Latin9, ISO-8859-1 (or 9, or 15...), and I feel lost,
not even knowing if they are for the X system or the console.
Could someone please describe exactly what steps I should take to find a
suitable font, check that it contains the wanted characters, and install
it in the X system?
--2-- Regarding the console, my problem is that I cannot get at it:
pressing ctl-cmd-F1 (on this keyboard, cmd replaces alt) produces only a
red screen that seems to remain for ever; however, I can get out of it
by cmd-F7.
Another fishy thing is that changing the default runlevel in
/etc/inittab has no effect: I put it to 3 and the system booted at level
5 all the same.
Obviously, there are configuration errors somewhere: could someone help
me there?
Thanks for all hints.
Charles
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