On 6/26/05, Charles Trois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Gentoo is nearly operational on my G4 iMac, but there are one or two > catches. > > --1-- KDE works and I have been able to install a proper French > Macintosh keyboard, but some characters, such as the Euro symbol, are > not printed. I understand that I have to choose another font (or > character set, or what not, I am very ignorant). I have read about > lat0-16, lat1-16, Latin9, ISO-8859-1 (or 9, or 15...), and I feel lost, > not even knowing if they are for the X system or the console. > > Could someone please describe exactly what steps I should take to find a > suitable font, check that it contains the wanted characters, and install > it in the X system? > > --2-- Regarding the console, my problem is that I cannot get at it: > pressing ctl-cmd-F1 (on this keyboard, cmd replaces alt) produces only a > red screen that seems to remain for ever; however, I can get out of it > by cmd-F7.
....Caan you get to a console with Cmd+F1, then? > Another fishy thing is that changing the default runlevel in > /etc/inittab has no effect: I put it to 3 and the system booted at level > 5 all the same. > > Obviously, there are configuration errors somewhere: could someone help > me there? > > Thanks for all hints. > > Charles -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
