On 27 Jul 2003, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 05:06, Thomas Otto wrote: > > > I'm missing the bar sign, the @ sign (I had to paste this one from the > > > address > > > in the header), bracketleft, bracketright, EuroSign and I don't know what > > > else on the keyboard on X. > > > > Same here, on an iBook2 700Mhz. I ended up writing my own ~/.Xmodmap > > which i load when I login. > > It seems everybody does that, instead of fixing the X keymaps... I'm no > better myself. :) > > > > > But I'm careful with this as I did not find a way to check a newly > > > installed > > > boottime.gz on the *running* system, i.e. before rebooting. After all > > > with the > > > wrong keymap I won't be able to even log in, if my guess is right. > > > > Indeed, and unlike a broken kernelmodule booting another kernel doesn't > > help it. > > You can always boot with something like init=/bin/sh and work with the > default kernel keymap though.
It's no problem to insert my Debian Install CD #1 and start a rescue mount of the previously installed system. My problem is that I definitely would not be able to load the previous keymap simply because I don't know where my current, though crippled keymap for X is installed, and where it was copied from to its current place, or whether it was copied from somewhere at all, or whether it is simply part of the kernel. I don't even know whether the console and X use 2 different keymaps in 2 different places, or whether a single, common one is used. And this, and only this, is why I still don't see how I could find a working keyboard through trial and error proceedings (provided that this is what you were ready to accept with your suggestion in "init=/bin/sh and work with the default kernel keymap"). I still think this is extremely dangerous for login purposes *as long as I do not know how to repair it* if I messed up the keyboard party ... As I said before: Docs, good docs ... :) BTW: Thanks, Michel Dänzer, for your work on X. It's the first time that I really like the Desktop on the Powerbook here. I'm extremley to have back a nice virtual Desktop here that I never managed to run on Mac OS X. Best Regards Wolfgang -- Profile, Links: http://profiles.yahoo.com/wolfgangpfeiffer
