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Re: installation on m68k/amiga



On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 05:19:30PM +0200, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> Hi,
> I tried the installation again on an amiga with the daily builds from
> Stephen's page. Files (nativehd) where downloaded on april 25.
> 
> I didn't get very far, I can select langauge and keyboard, then some
> hardware detection is done (lots of messages about missing ide modules flash
> by), and I see a list of a couple of network cards. When I am trying to
> select the one I am using with the cursor keys, the installer seems to think
> I pressed return, ie no network card. After that I can press keys as much as
> I want, it is not reacting to keyboard input anymore, so obvioulsy I can not
> go back to select a network card. This happened when I selected german as
> langauge, and a german keyboard, but also when I chose the default settings
> (American english). The interesting thing is, the cursor keys are working
> fine when I select language and keyboard layout, but not anymore after that.
> Maybe a PC type keyboard layout was installed, which is incompatible with
> amiga?

Sounds like a keymap problem. Try booting with DEBCONF_PRIORITY=low,
swapping to virtual console 4, or getting to the logs to see what keymap
is being selected.

Have you gotten farther than this before (i.e., is this a regression)?

Thanks,

Stephen

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Stephen R. Marenka     If life's not fun, you're not doing it right!
<stephen@marenka.net>

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