Re: Keyboard: Problems with German Umlauts: ?. ?, ? ...

["Dr. Christoph Hornung" <christoph.hornung@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi,

first, many thanks to all.

however, it still does not work -> obviously a lot of possibilities, but no solution, yet

mfg
ch

Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 03:53:11PM +0100, Dr. Christoph Hornung wrote:
>
> > - I easily got the german "layout" (like German position of y and z keys)
> > - however, after playing about around with /.../keymaps/german.iso.kbd, it 
> > seems to me that only 7-bit characters are supported. When mapping 7-bit 
> > characters (like 'a', '<' etc on to the ?, ? keys, everything works fine.
>
>
> For the console, add this to /etc/rc.conf:
> keymap=german.iso.kbd
> font8x16=iso-8x16.fnt
>
> For X11, use this in /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
> Section "InputDevice"
> 	Identifier	"Keyboard0"
> 	Driver		"keyboard"
> 	Option		"XkbModel" "pc105"
> 	Option		"XkbLayout" "de"
> EndSection
>
> No need to work with screen mappings for the basic stuff.

may be, but at least I would like to use my keyboard the right way... is this basic?

> Joerg