On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 01:34:54PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:15:58 -0400 (EDT), lee <l...@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote: > > > > Thanks! I got it to work after configuring the keyboard. Though the > > keyboard worked fine, it wasn't set up correctly, but since it is, I > > can switch again. > > > > I'm glad that you got it working, Lee. Would you mind elaborating as > to exactly how you did it?
Well, I changed the keyboard setting in xorg.conf: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "XKBOptions" "ctrl:nocaps" Option "XkbModel" "pc102" Option "XkbLayout" "de" EndSection I was lucky that the keyboard settings in KDE use setxkbmap with some options when you enable keyboard layouts. That helped me to find out that there's no 'Option "XkbVariant" "de"'. Once I got a good setting playing around with that, I used 'xmodmap -pke' to create a keymap which I edited to change the layout the way I wanted it. It's being loaded from my ~/.xinitrc now. > If I recall correctly, you had a 101-key IBM Model M keyboard, is > that correct? Aren't they 102 keys? > In my humble opinion, this is the best keyboard ever made. Yes, that's why I'm using them. There are just no decent keyboards available, except those and, probably, the ones that are still being built by Unicomp. Sooner or later, I might buy one of those new :) > I've got a couple of them left over from old IBM PS/2 systems. > The PS/2 systems are long gone, but the keyboards live on and on. > I'll never part with them. I wouldn't, either :) I've got only one now, but I'll get at least one spare, or better several, so that I'll have a supply that will last for my lifetime. And I don't understand why anyone accepts the junk keyboards you get nowadays, they are totally unusable and are worn out after only three weeks. And you can't type even half as fast on them, compared to a model M. They are a torture. > But I've never had any problem configuring them or getting them to > work. Well, they kinda work out of the box, but I had to use one of those junk keyboards before I got my model M. I never bothered to get the junk keyboard set up correctly. And before that, I was using an American keyboard ... > So far, I've been using hardware old enough to have a PS/2-style > keyboard connector at the back. But sooner or later I will be faced > with the prospect of getting some type of PS/2 to USB adapter so that > I can plug it in to a USB port and use it as a USB keyboard. USB sucks for keyboard connections :(((( The one I had to use before was an USB keyboard, and the responses to keystrokes were a hell of a lot slower than they are now with the PS/2 connection. It might be due to the keyboard, but I think it's an USB problem. > (Also, being a USA user, I've never had to worry about > locale settings, fonts, character sets, etc., for non-English languages. You'll have to start thinking about that once you get email in other languages :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100703133953.gb31...@yun.yagibdah.de