Re: Changing keyboard from qwerty

[wah <wah@dojo.tao.ca>]

On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> Are you trying to set keymaps for the console or for X.  AFAIK, they're
> handled seperately.

for the console, until I can get X figured out...

> For console:  loadkeys <mapfile> (usually run as root).
> 
> To get the German keys you are looking for, you will want to try either:
> 
>     loadkeys /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwertz/de.kmap.gz 

I did all that, but the non-english chars don't display, unless I use the
utility showkey, which does display the right keys. 

I even tryed setting the kbd_mode to Unicode, still nothing.
still confused as ever,
wah