I would really like so see an entry in the gentoo faq on howto set up international keyboard layout. Im a norwegian, and when using "loadkeys no" I get a half-working layout, but without our special characters
I would really like so see an entry in the gentoo faq on howto set up international keyboard layout. Im a norwegian, and when using "loadkeys no" I get a half-working layout, but without our special characters æ,ø and å. The keyboard is a users most important tool so it is very important to get it working perfectly!
can you fill us in on what you need to do to get it working?
In the past few hours I've been trying to install Gentoo Linux following the instructions from the article 'Gentoo Linux 1.0_rc6 "from source" (build) CD Installation'. I'd burned a CD from the image build-ix86-1.0_rc6-r14.iso a few days ago, and now I was playing with it.I could not get past the initial configuration because of keyboard problems. I have a Logitech Cordless Keyboard with German layout (http://www.logitech.com/cf/products/productoverview.cfm/106). Everytime I tryed to install Gentoo Linux, I got the same problem.First, at some point short after booting from the CD, I get the message "Spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7". This comes only once. Then, from time to time, I keep getting the message "Keyboard: unknown e1 escape sequence". When this message comes, the keyboard will not respond for some time, ranging from a few seconds to near a minute. I would guess this is some sort of status report from the keyboard, since it seems to happen at regular intervals, and regardless of whether I am typing something at the moment or not.Do you have any clues about how to solve this?
The spurious IRQ7 bug is just cosmetic. The keyboard, problem, I don't know how to fix. Does it work fine with other linux distributions?
If somebody who has working i18l keyboard support would tell me how that works, I would be happy to add an entry to the FAQ.
I added a note about this to the FAQ. Hopefully somebody will send me a solution.
I just browsed a mandrake machine to see how things were set up there (norwegian keyboard works perfectly there) my observations ----------------------------- Locale environment variables: LC_MESSAGES=no LANGUAGE=no:nb:nn:no@nynorsk:no_NY LC_TIME=no LANG=no LC_NUMERIC=no LC_CTYPE=no LC_MONETARY=no LC_COLLATE=no Files which I think gets loaded somewhere (these are not on gentoo) /usr/share/locale/no /usr/share/locale/no/LC_MESSAGES /usr/share/locale/no/LC_MESSAGES/chkconfig.mo /usr/share/locale/no/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo /usr/share/locale/no/LC_MESSAGES/fileutils.mo /usr/share/locale/no/LC_MESSAGES/popt.mo /usr/share/locale/no/LC_MESSAGES/kbdconfig.mo /usr/share/locale/no/LC_MESSAGES/grep.mo /usr/share/locale/no/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo /usr/share/locale/no/LC_MESSAGES/textutils.mo /usr/share/locale/no/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo /usr/share/locale/no/LC_MESSAGES/mouseconfig.mo /usr/share/locale/no/LC_MESSAGES/authconfig.mo /usr/share/locale/no/LC_MESSAGES/kudzu.mo /usr/share/locale/no/LC_MESSAGES/sh-utils.mo /usr/share/locale/no/LC_MESSAGES/rpm.mo /usr/share/locale/no/LC_MESSAGES/initscripts.mo /usr/share/locale/no/LC_MESSAGES/timeconfig.mo /usr/share/locale/no/LC_MESSAGES/wget.mo I really hope this can get fixed sometime really soon as im pretty lost without being able to type in characters like @${} Alexander
Assigning back to drobbins. Do we have any developers who use an i18l keyboard?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 973 ***
Trying to clean out the docs-depricated so that I can close the catergory ...
