German Umlauts on the console.

[Stephan Engelke <engelke@math.uni-hamburg.de>]

Hi everyone,
my system keeps giving me keyboard related toubles. I am running Debian
2.0 with Kernel 2.1.123. I am trying to get a German keyboard layout on
the console. My keymap is de-latin1-nodeadkeys.map.  The problem is:  I
cannot get German umlauts to display on the console. 
The curious thing is: I umlauts are displayed at the login prompt, but
as soon as I log in, either as normal user or as root, the umlaut keys
are not recognized anymore, no umlaut-characters are displayed, the
cursor does not advance, furthermore the "sharp-S"-key displays the last
command entered.  I checked the Keyboard HOWTO but had no luck following
its suggestions. 
Does anyone have any pointers for me? 
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

So long,
Stephan
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Stephan Engelke                            engelke@math.uni-hamburg.de
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