Hello Brian, On 06-Aug-99, you wrote:
BS> *- On 6 Aug, Lee Elliott wrote about "Re: backspace character does BS> not exists in xterm," BS>> Hello J.H.M., BS>> BS>> On 02-Aug-99, you wrote: BS>> BS>> JD\> On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 15:39:17 -0700, Oz Dror wrote: JD\>> BS>> On xterm I have to type crtl-h to generate the backspace character BS>> JD\> BS>> JD\> The consistent keyboard behaviour implementation for X relies BS>> on JD\> the use of the X Keyboard Extension. Make sure you don't BS>> have a JD\> "XkbDisable" in /etc/X11/XF86Config. JD\> BS>> JD\> HTH, BS>> JD\> Ray BS>> BS>> Hi, BS>> BS>> I tried commenting this entry out of my XF86Config and on BS>> reloading, the keyboard mapping was unusable. I eventually found BS>> the return key was now my R-alt key, and the two lower alpha rows BS>> on the keyboard were mapped six keys to the left, amongst the BS>> random mappings on the rest of the keyboard. I couldn't find the BS>> right combination to get to a console and as xdm was installed, the BS>> system went straight into X leaving me with a completely unusable BS>> system. Fortunately I'm just using this system to learn with so I BS>> didn't mind having to completely re-install from scratch to get BS>> around this. A rather drastic solution though. BS>> BS>> Any hints or tips on what should be done before enabling the X BS>> Keyboard Extension? BS>> BS> BS> Ouch!! How do you boot into linux? There are several ways to avoid a BS> reinstall. One way to fix this is to boot into single user BS> mode(which won't start anything up) and then edit the config file. BS> If you use lilo to boot you can get the lilo prompt and enter your BS> label for linux followed my 'single', i.e. BS> BS> LILO: linux single BS> BS> If you use loadlin just add single to the loadlin command line. BS> Another option is to boot with the Debian rescue disk, hit enter at BS> the boot: prompt and wait for the color selection dialog to come up. BS> Then hit alt-f2 and enter. Now mount your linux partition that has BS> the config file on it and edit it with ae editor that is on the BS> rescue floppy. BS> BS> There is certainly no need to reinstall the os for a broken config BS> file. BS> The 'other' problem is that when I install, I'm told that neither boot from HD or boot floppies are implemented on Amiga. I have to load from AmigaDOS - perhaps there are some params I could change there. As I said though, for me, it wasn't a problem - more like revision or reading a book again with foreknowledge, but I thought a warning might not go amiss as this doesn't seem to be 'common' knowledge. Regards, LeeE -- http://www.spatial.freeserve.co.uk