RE: Keyboard troubles...

["Christian Pernegger" <pernegger@chello.at>]

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> How can I configure my box to work correctly with a German keyboard?
>
> During installation I selected de-latin1-nodeadkeys, here's what I got:
>
> * emacs will accept umlauts and the such when I'm on the local console
>
> * but when I'm logged in via ssh, other, even more arcane symbols appear.
>
> * On a shell prompt the special keys consistently do nothing.
>
> I installed using potato-testcycle-2 cds and recently updated
> to testcycle-3.
>
> I'll gladly accept even an RTFM if you tell me which one. :)

I've skimmed the German_HOWTO, played with console-tools and generally
familiarized myself a bit with keymaps and the like - here's what I've
come up with...

The default loaded keymap is de-latin1-nodeadkeys which is the correct
one. The relevant entries are:

keycode  12 = ssharp            question        backslash
keycode  26 = +udiaeresis       +Udiaeresis
keycode  39 = +odiaeresis       +Odiaeresis
keycode  40 = +adiaeresis       +Adiaeresis

As long as "diaeresis" means "umlaut" that should be correct.
'/usr/bin/showkey -m'
displays the correct characters for all keys, but the results on the console
are:

ß              does "cursor up"
ä   Ä      does nothing at all
ü               beeps
Ü               does nothing
ö   Ö      beeps

Help!

Christian

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