Re: Probs with Kbd Layout, sudo and kpowersave !!

2006-11-18 Thread Kevin Williams
Any ideas or suggestions, how I can get my keyboard working ? It's nothing to the hardware itself as the kbd works just perfect while in SuSE and winxp. Another interesting observation - when I browse using konqueror, the minus sign shows up as a strange box shaped character !! Thanks for any

Re: Probs with Kbd Layout, sudo and kpowersave !!

2006-11-18 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 11/15/06, Kevin Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: About the kpowersave problem, an hour's search on the internet over how to configure powersave with dbus returned nothing appropriate. I revisited BLFS Book and read thru' the DBUS and HAL notes. Thats when I noticed the link to hints

Re: Probs with Kbd Layout, sudo and kpowersave !!

2006-11-18 Thread Shawn
Kevin: Good your sudo works now. To bad we don't know why. My /etc/sysconfig/console looks like this KEYMAP=us FONT=lat1-16 -m 8859-1 Did you review the section in the lfs book about configuring the linux console? Ok, here are some ideas for d-bus/hal debugging. D-Bus requires 2 sessions.

Re: Probs with Kbd Layout, sudo and kpowersave !!

2006-11-18 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 11/17/06, Kevin Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any ideas or suggestions, how I can get my keyboard working ? It's nothing to the hardware itself as the kbd works just perfect while in SuSE and winxp. Another interesting observation - when I browse using konqueror, the minus sign shows up

Re: Probs with Kbd Layout, sudo and kpowersave !!

2006-11-15 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 11/14/06, Kevin Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Soon after booting into runlevel 5 (KDE) I noticed that, the kbd shortcuts Ctrl+Alt+Fn to switch between the vt's don't work ! Back in the red hat days I knew how to do this, now I just don't remember !! :-( I chose keyboard layout in

Re: Probs with Kbd Layout, sudo and kpowersave !!

2006-11-15 Thread Kevin Williams
Thanks very much the responses. Soon after I sent email to the list, I embarked on the task of troubleshooting these pesky lil' probs. The problem with sudo, Dan, like you said had to do with /etc/sudoers ! I tried moving /etc/pam.d/sudo out of the way and this gave me a pam realted error