On Friday 22 December 2006 19:31, A. Khattri wrote: > On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Nelson, David \(ED, PAR&D\) wrote: > > I may be preaching to the converted, but have you tried Ctrl-Alt-Fx keys > > to try and get a console? Does the keyboard have any odd switches to > > turn the F keys on? My logitech keyboard does - to switch between > > hotkeys and Fx keys. > > Basically, Im using an Apple USB keyboard on an amd64 box. The "Option" > key (which has the word "Alt" written above it) does not function as an > ALT key at all (even on the console it doesn't work). So this tells me > that I need to set my keyboard map in the console and get that working > first (hopefully, the key will work in X too when I solve this). > > Of course, I could just use a "regular" PC keyboard (though this Apple > keyboard was a spare I had lying around and Ive grown fond of it). > > So... how do we play with the keyboard mapping in the console? > > > -- > A
Hi I'm not really a Gentoo user anymore, but I follow the list every once in a while. So the advice I can give applies for FreeBSD. Gentoo should be similar however. The keymaps for the console are to found under /usr/share/syscons/keymaps. For example, german is in /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/german.cp850.kbd. Just look for .kbd files in your system. If you want to change X play with the files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/rules/. Maybe that helps, Cheers, Ben -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
