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Re: getting PowerPC 3400c's attention



On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 10:19:57AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 15:03 -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
> > 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).

Is the key-mapping weird? Is that why you can't login?

Have you seen: http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/keycodes

> >  I don't know how to get to VT or single user mode.  

Ctrl-Alt-F1 should give you a VT.

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