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Christian Olsson
03-18-2002, 05:04 PM
I'm having trouble setting up my keyboard in the console. The problem is that I'm a Swede and want to use å ä ö and see them. Under X I can see them in the diffrent terminals but not type them. At the CLI I can't see the chars, instead i see <E5> and such. All chars are at their correct places but when I press å ä ö I get a beep. Using non terminal programs in X works fine as this post is a proof of.
The current keymap I'm using is the one that should be the correct one latin1-se or something like that.
marvin
03-18-2002, 06:08 PM
You have to set the keymap separately for CLI and X. Exactly where this is done is probably distro specific.
The CLI kemap is the one that is loaded when the system boots up so poke around in the /etc/rc.* files and see if you can find anyting.
If you use redhat the keymap is specified in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard which holds
KEYBOARDTYPE="pc"
KEYTABLE="se-latin1"
Christian Olsson
03-19-2002, 02:34 AM
Well I tryed and it still beeps with se-latin1 and fi-latin1. I think it has to do with that the console can't display the chars, since Å Ä Ö comes as <E5> <E4> <F6>. What font are you using? I have tried several but none has any hinting name as "se" in it.
marvin
03-19-2002, 10:35 AM
Originally posted by Christian Olsson:
<STRONG>Well I tryed and it still beeps with se-latin1 and fi-latin1. I think it has to do with that the console can't display the chars, since Å Ä Ö comes as <E5> <E4> <F6>. What font are you using? I have tried several but none has any hinting name as "se" in it.</STRONG>
Ok, I use the redhat default font map, which works fine for me.
Did you try the lat1-16 font?
krister@a112 krister$ consolechars -v -f lat1-16
Loading 256-chars 8x16 font from file `/lib/kbd/consolefonts/lat1-16.psf.gz'.