From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Jul 4 9:59:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C091337B400 for ; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 09:59:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gnah.bolet.org (gnah.bolet.org [80.65.226.87]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D7F243E09 for ; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 09:59:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pornin@bolet.org) Received: (from pornin@localhost) by gnah.bolet.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g64GxU420135 for freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 18:59:30 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from pornin) Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 18:59:28 +0200 From: Thomas Pornin To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Size of Alpha binaries Message-ID: <20020704185928.A19989@gnah.bolet.org> References: <3D24149A.AE06F641@yahoo.de> <20020704170453.D576@freebie.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20020704170453.D576@freebie.xs4all.nl>; from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl on Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 05:04:53PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 05:04:53PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > You can set keyboard/language on the SRM level. Type SHOW to find it, the > name is rather obvious (but escapes me at the moment) Actually, there is something fishy about that setting. I live in France and I have a French keyboard; for various reasons, I prefer my keyboard to be considered as a US keyboard (mainly, my fingers know how to type on a US keyboard). If under FreeBSD I use a US keymap, the keyboard is used as a US keyboard, and what is effectively written on the keys is completely irrelevant. However, if I declare to the SRM that the keyboard is a US one, the `| and \ key' does not work (I tried all keys, those characters are nowhere to be found). The whole keyboard is considered as a standard US keyboard by the SRM, except for that key. I don't know why. If I configure the SRM to assume a French keyboard, all keys work as they are supposed to do with a French keyboard. I observed this behaviour on all Alpha machines I could try under SRM (two PWS 500a, some XP1000, several Multia, and my current AXPpci33). --Thomas Pornin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message