RE: Keyboard Probs (was Re: Status of Potato?)
I've had the same problem. Immediate sol'n was to run the command "loadkeys
-d" (after you figure out the
transliteration for the "a" -> "q", etc. THen you can login.
Doug
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karl B. Hammar [SMTP:karl@kalle.csb.ki.se]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 8:43 AM
> To: bmitch@surfree.com
> Subject: Re: Keyboard Probs (was Re: Status of Potato?)
>
> Ok, I can test it out tonight (MET).
>
> /Karl
>
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> From: Brandon Mitchell <bmitch@surfree.com>
> Subject: Keyboard Probs (was Re: Status of Potato?)
> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 23:00:06 -0500 (EST)
>
> > On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
> >
> > > Bug: Keyboard is no long US layout. Typing 12345 gets me &, e' (the
> > > accent), ", ", ', and the paragraph symbol. I believe this is why
> people
> > > can't login as root, my password contains numbers. I managed to
> figure
> > > out this keyboard a bit, but it's not easy. If you need me to debug
> > > things, let me know how, but try to minimize the typing :-( Running
> > > "/etc/init.d/keymaps.sh start" results in:
> > > Loading /etc/kbd/default.kmap.gz
> > > So I think it's working as designed.
> >
> > Karl, can you reproduce this on your machine. "root" results in the
> same
> > thing, but keys like m is on ; and a and q are swapped.
> >
> > Brandon
> >
> > Brandon Mitchell * http://public.surfree.com/bmitch
> > bmitch@surfree.com * ICQ: 30631197
> >
>
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