Stephan Engelke dixit: > Hi everyone, > my system keeps giving me keyboard related toubles. I am running Debian > 2.0 with Kernel 2.1.123. I am trying to get a German keyboard layout on > the console. My keymap is de-latin1-nodeadkeys.map. The problem is: I > cannot get German umlauts to display on the console. > The curious thing is: I umlauts are displayed at the login prompt, but > as soon as I log in, either as normal user or as root, the umlaut keys > are not recognized anymore, no umlaut-characters are displayed, the > cursor does not advance, furthermore the "sharp-S"-key displays the last > command entered. I checked the Keyboard HOWTO but had no luck following > its suggestions. > Does anyone have any pointers for me? > Any help is appreciated. > Thanks in advance.
This is how my /etc/profile looks like for configuration of the Spanish characters. I guess you'll have to change ES for DE. Tschuess (BTW, do you have the "eszet" character on German keyboards?. # /etc/profile: system-wide .profile file for bash(1). PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games" PS1="\\$ " export PATH PS1 export LC_ALL=es_ES umask 002 -- Un saludo, Horacio ------------------------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------
