On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 03:42:53PM +0000, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: > Hi [FYI, it's considered good netiquette to wrap the lines of an email message at 80 characters or less.] > Well the Xfree86 options list in the install for Debain Sparc What options list? Are these the xserver-xfree86 package's debconf questions, or something else? > does not give you the option to set the XkbModel to "type5_euro". The It doesn't list all options. In fact, it says: Advanced users can use any model defined by the selected XKB rule set. If the xlibs package has been unpacked, see the /etc/X11/xkb/rules directory for available rule sets. > only > option that you can set that will work infact is type5_us (the Uk one > freezes the install after the welcome window after first boot up) What "Uk one"? You did say that sun/type5_euro/gb works. > but that totally screws up the keyboard map once you install if you > allow the installation to load X windows. It's really important that I know what tool you are using to configure XFree86 the first time around. The recommended tool is the debconf questions. > In fact if you don't reconfigure the Xfree86 at the command prompt > before x windows loads you are totally stuffed as you can only log in > by making the username a key stroke you know you can get and making > the password the same (which means you have already tried to install > once and got to the X window log in and played around to see what > keystokes give what symbols). Yes, when the keymap is hosed in X, it's very frustrating. If you have network access to the machine, I suggest sshing in and running a command like "chvt 1" as root. > It seems to me that there is some sort of fundamental problem in the > Xfree86 program that is causing these problems with the keymaps. Not necessarily. Configuring the keyboard wrong is adequate to describe your situtation. > Surely you want people to be able to load future versions of Debain > for Sparc without having all this trouble trying to get Xfree86 to > work properly. Well, if they use an obsolete configuration tool first, it's hard for me to prevent this. I've installed Debian 3.0 to my SPARC and didn't have this sort of trouble. > If I understand a bug properly its a glitch in a program that prevents > it from working properly. At the moment Xfree86 installation does not > work properly in the sparc port of woody. -- G. Branden Robinson | You could wire up a dead rat to a Debian GNU/Linux | DIMM socket and the PC BIOS memory branden@debian.org | test would pass it just fine. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Ethan Benson
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