Re: blade 1000 X config
Dave Love wrote:
>Tib <tib@tigerknight.org> writes:
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>>No - it's not the keyboard that's messed up. It runs just dandy until you
>>get past the locale selection and pick your language preference - then
>>suddely everything is mapped wrong and on the sarge installer I didn't see
>>a way to pick a literal keyboard map,
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>The locale selection is nothing to do with the keymap. The installer
>definitely allows you to specify the keyboard type fairly
>specifically. Have you actually read the installation instructions?
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>>In any case - my issue now (since I picked the ffb graphics driver) is
>>which keyboard to tell x I'm using? The option for 'sun' was in there, but
>>said to use that if you have a 1.4 or 1.5 type keyboard.. this is a 1.6.
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>I'm not at all sure what you need to know, but the _old-style_
>(non-USB) type 6 keyboards are OK with the type 5 map. USB type 6 is
>different.
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At the risk of being wrong (I have been known to be occasionally !!),
would it work with a standard PC USB keyboard ? I mean, apart from the
left row of keys which may not be supported anyway, is there anything on
the Type 6 you really REALLY need ? I'm facing the same problem, and
might just use my wireless PC kbd/mouse instead.
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