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Re: Everything seems to cause a reboot



On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:01:45 -0500 (EST), Darren wrote:
> 
> The tty switcher could be a keyboard issue, I
> support, with the wrong codes being sent, but I have no idea how to fix
> that, and I've treid reading around the web but I can't find anything I
> can use.  I have an IBM Model M 101 keyboard.  X seems to think I have a
> 105 key board, but I can't see how that can be the problem.  But it does
> seem like it might be something to do with the Xorg config I guess, but I
> don't know how to fix that.  Tried a simple-minded Xorg -configure, but it
> did not help.

The IBM Model M is the best keyboard ever made, in my humble opinion.
I am using one now to compose this e-mail.  Edit /etc/default/keyboard
and configure the keyboard.  Here are the settings I use:

   XKBMODEL="pc101"
   XKBLAYOUT="us"
   XKBVARIANT=""
   XKBOPTIONS="lv3:ralt_switch"

Then shutdown and reboot.

The valid names you can use for XKBMODEL are listed in
/usr/share/console-setup/KeyboardNames.pl.  For more information,
see the documentation files in /usr/share/doc/console-setup.

The XKBOPTIONS value used above restores the ability to use the
right Alt key with F1-F12 to switch to tty13-tty24, if you have
them defined, whereas the left Alt key used in conjunction with
F1-F12 is used to switch to consoles tty1-tty12.  This was the
default behavior in Lenny, but not in Squeeze.
  
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