Sven Luther wrote: > Sam Halliday wrote: > > 1 - i have a "british" keyboard (even though apple's is not even close to a > > british pc keyboard) and i would like to be able to have this mapped > > correctly. at the moment a lot of the non-character (such as tilde) keys are > > not mapped correctly. i selected the british keyboard during install... but > > i suspect this is the british PC keymapping, not the apple one. > > Well, either the keymap is fubar, or you did choose wrongly. Is this in > X or under the console ? i haven't installed X yet. i choose (in kbdconfig) mac / Unknown / British / Standard / iBook2 i also choose mac / Unknown / British / Standard / Standard but it was soooo fscked up i needed to use the debian installer (btw... what about a "rescue" option??) to copy over the .old keymap. so, conclusion is... the keymap is fubar OR i have a keyboard which hasn't been mapped yet (unlikely) from some googling, the way debian is interpreting my keyoard is as if it looked like this: http://store1.yimg.com/I/lovemacs_1790_40211439 but it is not like that, and i cannot find an image on google. some major differences are that i have the tilde/comment key beside the left shift (not top left) and in the top left i have a plusminus/chapter key. i also have pound sterling (£) as the shift key 3 and hash (#) as the alt gr key 3 (although it is not marked on the keyboard). > > 2 - maybe related to 1, but i cannot use the virtual terminals. when i do > > Alt-F2 i just get "unknown scancode e0 54", and if i also hold down the fn > > key i get no output at all. > > Err, if its like the french keymap, then Alt is mapped as Alt-Gr or Meta > or something, and Apple/Command is mapped as Alt. damn... i'd really like the Alt to be Alt, and the Apple key to be Meta. how can i do that? damn again.. that will mess up (altgr-3) to give me the often used hash # key. its looking more and more like i'll have to write my own keymap!!! any docs on how to do that? i really don't want to have to do that... > > 3 - during the debian installer stage, i needed to use install-safe as none > > of the other options would work. this meant i had to install with a 2.4 > > kernel. i > > No problem, but you could install a 2.6 kernel afterward. see my other email... the debian image does not work. im compiling my own now. > > 4 - i am currently recompiling my own 2.6.7 kernel (without an initrd), if > > anyone has a minimal 1Ghz G4 iBook (combo drive, no bluetooth or airport > > extreme) kernel config file... a copy would be much appreciated! > > Just use the default config file, and add the stuff that are needed. > Repeat until it works. but it seems to have so much in it that i will never use... has anyone got a stripped down config file which has only the bare essentials for a G4 iBook? (i will then naturally add extras i use, such as nfs client) cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http://www.nongnu.org/fhsst/ Sam's Homepages http://fommil.homeunix.org/~samuel/ http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/~samuel/
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