Re: getting PowerPC 3400c's attention

[Paul Scott <waterhorse@ultrasw.com>]

Hans Ekbrand wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 10:19:57AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
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> > On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 15:03 -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
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> > > I have been running sid on x86 for several years but just was given a 
> > > 3400c PowerBook.  I am a Mac Linux newbie.
> > >
> > > sid and X are installed with quik loader.
> > >
> > > quik seems to be set to autoboot: true
> > >
> > > I have mistakenly configured X for keyboard macintosh_old and now seem 
> > > to be very stuck.  I can't login to X (xdm).
> > >      
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> Is the key-mapping weird? Is that why you can't login?
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Apparently so.

> Have you seen: http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/keycodes
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I hadn't yet.  Thanks.  That seems to address problems that have been 
solved by sarge but doesn't address keymapping in X which is the only 
place I now sometimes have a problem.

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> > > I don't know how to get to VT or single user mode.  
> > >      
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> Ctrl-Alt-F1 should give you a VT. It should but it didn't.  In those configurations X was intercepting all keytrokes that I could think of except for Ctrl-apple-Power.
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Thanks,

Paul