Subject: Re: Keyboard issues on a rev A iMac YDL 1.2??? (Newbie)
From: Jim Cole (greyleaf@yggdrasill.net)
Date: Wed Oct 24 2001 - 00:48:03 MDT
So you can boot to runlevel 1 and the key map is correct at the
console, but if you then change to runlevel 3 (or 2) the key map
is no longer correct while working at the console? Sorry, but I
am not sure what this would imply.
Are you currently using a kernel newer than what came with the
distribution? If you are using one of the later 2.2.x kernels,
the problem might be due to a kernel using the new input layer
with a distribution configured for older kernels. What is in your
/etc/sysconfig/keyboard file? With the new input layer, I think
you are supposed to avoid loading any mac-* maps with loadkeys.
If /etc/sysconfig/keyboard lists something like mac-us-latin1, it
should be changed to us-latin1. About half way through
http://home.munich.netsurf.de/Franz.Sirl/inputppc.html
there is a brief discussion of this issue.
Adam Barrow's bits of Mon, 22 Oct 2001 translated to:
>My mistake - soo sorry! It was working in runlevel 1 (which had previously
>had a bad key mapping) but not in anything else. Does that make my problem
>more obvious?
>
>Thanks again,
>Adam
>
>on 10/22/01 15:22, Jim Cole wrote from greyleaf@yggdrasill.net:
>
>> Adam Barrow's bits of Mon, 22 Oct 2001 translated to:
>>
>>> some messing around got the keyboard mapping to work correctly in the
>>> console (after removing the loadkeys section from rc.sysinit) - but only
>>> when I boot at runlevel 2! If I try and boot into any higher runlevel, the
>>> keyboard mapping is all wrong - like ? becomes space and k becomes enter
>>
>> Hi - Are you sure that you can't get to runlevel 3 without the
>> key mapping becoming trashed? My understanding is that the
>> difference between 2 and 3 is very small, involving only a bit of
>> network functionality; nothing that should involve keymaps. Just
>> checking since not being able to go from 2 to 3 is very different
>> from not being able to go from 3 to 5.
>>
>>
>> Jim
>
>
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