From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 11 20:57:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rhenium.btinternet.com (rhenium.btinternet.com [194.73.73.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5C5C37B94B for ; Thu, 11 May 2000 20:57:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from [213.1.64.244] (helo=parish.my.domain) by tantalum with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 12pwpW-00059z-00; Thu, 11 May 2000 18:32:58 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA01085; Thu, 11 May 2000 18:32:47 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 18:32:46 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: David Larkin Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KEYBOARD mapping Message-ID: <20000511183246.A878@parish> References: <3919C285.5A4E9BAF@DJL.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <3919C285.5A4E9BAF@DJL.co.uk>; from David.Larkin@djl.co.uk on Wed, May 10, 2000 at 09:11:50PM +0100 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 09:11:50PM +0100, David Larkin wrote: > Hi , > > You may have followed my ealier tales of woe concerning > > - panic : vinvalbuf: dirty bufs > > - mounting old filesystem > > I'm still trying to work out how to fix them but meanwhile > > I have a new problem. > > I re installed 3.4 > > Now I find my keyboard mapping is all wrong and I can't > > find characters such as # | \ , at least not where I'd expect them ;-) > Sounds like you've probably got a US keymap (you know, the one with the keys in the wrong place ;)) installed. Add keymap="uk.cp850" to /etc/rc.conf. If you want to swap the Left-Ctrl and CapsLock keys then swap the entries for 029 and 058 in /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/uk.cp850.kbd HTH > I've given up working at the console, and I'm ssh-ing from another machine for now. > > I remember selecting my keyboard during the installation > > I obviously got this wrong. > > How do I change it retrspectively ? > > Dave > > -- ...and on the eighth day God created UNIX ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message