On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 20:40:11 -0400 Scott wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 06:23:19PM -0500, Wyatt M. Portendt wrote: > > Hello, > > The biggest problem is that my Dell keyboard won't behave. It > > doesn't do it all the time in every application, but in this email > > certain letters come up wrong. I was able to fix it with the spell > > checker and the mouse, but, for instance, the z and y are backwards. > > > > I wonder if you misconfigured during installation, does that sound > possible? For example, maybe you tabbed through it and chose a German > one which might be Suse's default.
Whatever may have happened, that IS a german keyboard layout. You need to change that, read on. > I configure with xf86config (or xorgconfig) If you do use that (it's > a text based X configurater) ati generic is number 5 when you get to > cards. SuSE has a very advanced tool for configuration of the X server, called sax2. To use it, you need to shut down the X server, since sax needs to start the server in order to configure it. Log in as root, and issue the command: init 3 That will shut down the X server, and you can start sax2. > > > I don't know if any of this helps at all though, I'm not that familiar > with Suse--which despite its popularity isn't mentioned that often on > this particular list. > > Horror are you on this list? I know you've changed from Suse, but can > you help this gentleman? :) I am on this list, very much so (I'm a co-moderator ;) ). I see this gentleman had some help from other members, but I think I can add something to it - the solution proposed would change, I believe, only the X settings, leaving the underlaying system untouched. Now, it's been a while since what I used - SuSE 7.1 - was current, but I believe that it still has the "rc.config editor" (even though the /etc/rc.config file is gone). You should be able to start the editor through YaST2. You need to set the variable controlling the keyboard layout to whatever suits you (I guess "us" instead of "de") - I can't remember the name of the variable, but it is pretty self-explanatory, IIRC. Cheers -- Horror Vacui Registered Linux user #257714 Go get yourself... counted: http://counter.li.org/ - and keep following the GNU. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/0XFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
