I had started a thread in November last year with the title "Probs with Kbd
Layout, sudo and kpowersave !!". Though the sudo and kpowersave were
resolved, the kbd issue still is haunting me !!
I have SuSE 10.2, gentoo and BLFS installed on my laptop. While SuSE and
gentoo (and others like Mandriva, Kororaa....) setup the keyboard to behave
the way it should, I just can't get it do the same in BLFS.
These are the problems I'm facing with the keyboard.
1) Ctrl+C and Ctrl+Z do not work while in single user mode. But these key
combinations do work in other runlevels
2) Ctrl+Alt+Fn combination doesn't work when the kdm login screen is
displayed !! The only way I can use Ctrl+Alt+Fn is either to login into
kde or select "Console Login" from the drop down menu and thus terminate
kdm session. While in other runlevels, these key combinations work
without a hitch !
I have looked into /etc/sysconfig/console and even tried editing the console
startup script. I've tried copying gentoo and SuSE kernels and booting with
these kernels just to rule out the possibility that it might have to do with
the kernel. I've tried copying startup scripts from SuSE and gentoo to setup
the keyboard and that has made no difference. I have tried looking into
config files for a clue. I've done all I could to find the culprit. Nope !
Giving Up !! I've completely run out of ideas !
The only possible explanation I could think of - there exists a
keyword/variable/setting which is screwing up the setting thus, overriding
the normal kbd behaviour. I just don't where to look now ! My guess is that,
it could be one of the settings in login.defs or inputrc or I dunno !!
Can somebody help in this regard ? Or, point me at something useful ??
It definitely would prove helpful, if someone could brief me on how the keymap
is setup during the boot process. I don't know if the kernel has to do
anything with the keymap ! But, I've tried booting with kernels from SuSE and
gentoo... ! If it is not the kernel then, it must be in the userland ,
right ? Just what is it that screwing up the default behaviour ?
Now, if I move away the config files I think which might be triggering this
weird behaviour and boot into single user mode or otherwise, would this cause
any irreversible changes to my system ? I mean, would it cause the
configuration to change in some way that, might not be obvious and later when
I recover these config files I had removed, would the system be back to
normal ?
Any help would be "greatly" appreciated.
Thanks,
Kevin
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