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Re: changing the keyboard type after installtion



Haim Ashkenazi wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 2002-10-26 at 12:57, Russell wrote:
> > Haim Ashkenazi wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > Sorry if this is a trivial question, but I've just came back to Debian
> > > after using Solaris for 2 years...
> > >
> > > I have a KVM that connects both my sparc and my Intel machines. Under
> > > Solaris and windows it works just fine, so when I've installed debian I
> > > didn't think I should choose SUN keyboard in the installation process.
> > > now I'm having repetition problems with it (it occasionally doubles the
> > > letter I'm typing - I don't think it's an xset repeat-rate setting
> > > issue). in the installation manual it says to use kbdconfig to change
> > > the type of keyboard after the installtion but I couldn't find it
> > > anywhere (I've even looked at the package search web page).
> > >
> > > so, how do I change my keyboard type... :)
> >
> > It's in an "InputDevice" section of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
> but what about the console? (although I don't remember if it happened in
> the console)

"apropos keyboard" will show a list of keyboard utilities: dumpkeys, kbd_mode,
kbdrate, keymaps, loadkeys, setleds, setmetamode, showkey.



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