Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 14:14:10 +0100 From: Darren <darren@dazdaz.org> To: FreeBSD questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re[2]: UK keyboard and missing ? character Message-ID: <17512609561.20030814141410@dazdaz.org> In-Reply-To: <20030814123942.GA3558@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <279159971.20030813132234@dazdaz.org> <20030813142516.GB712@users.munk.nu> <474924531.20030814120605@dazdaz.org> <20030814114922.GB43271@llama.fishballoon.org> <20030814123942.GA3558@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Thursday, August 14, 2003, 1:39:42 PM, you wrote: MS> On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 12:49:22PM +0100, Scott Mitchell wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 12:06:05PM +0100, Darren wrote: >> > >> > Hello Jez, >> > >> > Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately this and many variations don't >> > allow me to use the ? (UK pound) character. I've spent some more time >> > searching around and hav'nt found a working solution, yet. >> > >> > Of those UK people with a working ? character, what rc.conf* settings >> > do you use? >> >> The only relevant thing I have is >> >> keymap="uk.iso" >> >> Which seems to work fine. Is there something strange about the keyboard >> itself? MS> I find: MS> font8x14="iso-8x14" MS> font8x16="iso-8x16" MS> font8x8="iso-8x8" MS> useful as well as setting the keymap to 'uk.iso'. This in conjunction MS> with changing the terminal type by editing /etc/ttys: MS> % diff -u /usr/share/examples/etc/ttys /etc/ttys MS> --- /usr/share/examples/etc/ttys Fri Nov 22 18:44:43 2002 MS> +++ /etc/ttys Fri Jul 18 17:50:32 2003 MS> @@ -30,16 +30,16 @@ MS> # when going to single-user mode. MS> console none unknown off secure MS> # MS> -ttyv0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure MS> +ttyv0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25l1 on secure MS> # Virtual terminals MS> -ttyv1 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure MS> -ttyv2 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure MS> -ttyv3 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure MS> -ttyv4 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure MS> -ttyv5 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure MS> -ttyv6 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure MS> -ttyv7 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure MS> -ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm off secure MS> +ttyv1 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25l1 on secure MS> +ttyv2 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25l1 on secure MS> +ttyv3 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25l1 on secure MS> +ttyv4 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25l1 on secure MS> +ttyv5 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25l1 on secure MS> +ttyv6 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25l1 on secure MS> +ttyv7 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25l1 on secure MS> +ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure MS> # Serial terminals MS> # The 'dialup' keyword identifies dialin lines to login, fingerd etc. MS> ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" dialup off secure MS> The 'cons25l1' terminal type is very similar to the default cons25, MS> but it has improved support for characters from ISO-8859-1. There are MS> similar modified terminal versions in /etc/termcap to support KOI8-R, MS> ISO-8859-2, ISO-8859-7 etc. MS> Under X, the xterm or xterm-color terminal types all seem to support MS> display of appropriate non-ascii characters. So long as you have MS> Option "XkbLayout" "gb" MS> in the "InputDevice" section for Keyboard0, then you should get the £ MS> sign appearing as shift-3 and " on shift-2 and @ on shift-' and all of MS> the other differences between the standard US and UK keyboard layouts. Interesting. I can type £ at the login prompt, but not when I login on console or via remotely via ssh. When I do login, all of the other characters do work, except the £ character. I don't know if this is related or not, but when I type : -bash-2.05b$ export TERM=cons25 -bash-2.05b$ reset /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: reset: Undefined symbol "_nc_rootname" -bash-2.05b$ export TERM=cons25l1 -bash-2.05b$ reset /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: reset: Undefined symbol "_nc_rootname" However when I execute "reset" on console it works. Coming back to the £ issue, is there a problem with 4.8-RELEASE UK keymap? -- Best regards, Darren mailto:darren@dazdaz.org
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