Re: Great X on CPQ Armada1110, just special German keys don't work.

[Heather <star@betelgeuse.starshine.org>]

> Hi Debianers,
> 
> thank all the helps and tips I got from you at this great list, I 
> successfully setup X on my good old CPQ Armada1110 (P75, 2GB, 24MB RAM) 
> with German keyboard. There is nothing I can complain about performance 
> compared to Win98. Really great
> !
> 
> Everything works fine now, except the 4 special German keys don't work. 
> Then I noticed they don't work even outside X. I did choose German Keyboard 
> at installation. What could I have done wrong at setup. Where should I look 
> for a corresponding *.conf file.

You're looking for the keymaps files.  They should have short extensions 
related to which country they are for...

There's two different styles of setting up keyboard stuff under X, xkb and
xmodmap.

> Will these special keys work at all?

You can use showkeys with different commandline options to see what keycodes
and scancodes they produce.  I suspect there may be more than one German 
keyboard.

I think laptops are especially susceptible to not getting the right keyboard
tagged - I see laptops with a Windows key but no room for a Macro key to go
with it - and no such keyboard to pick from lists during installs. <rant
about major commercial vendors blowing off laptop users would go here.>
 
> thank you!
> 
> Ben
> in New York

Good luck with that.  

* Heather * star@starshine.org *