Hi again. Maybe you can also have a look for example at the xorg.lst file in the rules directory for X and then adjust your xorg.conf properly...
B On Saturday 23 December 2006 18:27, Benjamin Sobotta wrote: > On Friday 22 December 2006 19:31, A. Khattri wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Nelson, David \(ED, PAR&D\) wrote: > > > I may be preaching to the converted, but have you tried Ctrl-Alt-Fx > > > keys to try and get a console? Does the keyboard have any odd switches > > > to turn the F keys on? My logitech keyboard does - to switch between > > > hotkeys and Fx keys. > > > > Basically, Im using an Apple USB keyboard on an amd64 box. The "Option" > > key (which has the word "Alt" written above it) does not function as an > > ALT key at all (even on the console it doesn't work). So this tells me > > that I need to set my keyboard map in the console and get that working > > first (hopefully, the key will work in X too when I solve this). > > > > Of course, I could just use a "regular" PC keyboard (though this Apple > > keyboard was a spare I had lying around and Ive grown fond of it). > > > > So... how do we play with the keyboard mapping in the console? > > > > > > -- > > A > > Hi > > I'm not really a Gentoo user anymore, but I follow the list every once in a > while. So the advice I can give applies for FreeBSD. Gentoo should be > similar however. > > The keymaps for the console are to found under /usr/share/syscons/keymaps. > For example, german is in /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/german.cp850.kbd. Just > look for .kbd files in your system. > > If you want to change X play with the files in > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/rules/. > > Maybe that helps, > > Cheers, > > Ben -- [email protected] mailing list
