From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 27 9:51:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A76B37B427 for ; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 09:51:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shockwave.systems.pipex.net (shockwave.systems.pipex.net [62.241.160.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2847943E42 for ; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 09:51:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stacey@Demon.vickiandstacey.com) Received: from Demon (81-86-129-77.dsl.pipex.com [81.86.129.77]) by shockwave.systems.pipex.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77FA316000CEE; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 17:51:00 +0100 (BST) Subject: Re: No sound, wrong UK keyboard setting in X From: Stacey Roberts Reply-To: sroberts@dsl.pipex.com To: Matthew Seaman Cc: sroberts@dsl.pipex.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020727154942.GB856@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> References: <1027787138.76796.18.camel@Demon.vickiandstacey.com> <20020727154942.GB856@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 27 Jul 2002 18:51:18 +0100 Message-Id: <1027792279.31859.3.camel@Demon.vickiandstacey.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi All, Given the problems I'm having with the gnome desktop at the moment. I just want to ensure that I'm doing the right thing here. In order to enable my MS Natural keyboard to work with the correct UK key settings, can I simply edit (make backup first, of course) XF86Config file where it is, get out of X, then type startx, and the keys will be mapped properly? Thanks Stacey On Sat, 2002-07-27 at 16:49, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 05:25:37PM +0100, Stacey Roberts wrote: > > > I used to have this all set up before this machine had to be rebuilt. > > Now afer re-building it, I can't for the life of me work out how to > > enable sound for non-root users, nor am I able to get my MS Natural > > (ergonomic) keyboard to work properly (shift ' does not give me @, > > etc..,) > > Sound for non-root users is probably a function of the permissions on > the appropriate device files in /dev --- most of the sound related > stuff has permissions rw-rw-rw- on my machine. MAKEDEV snd0 should > recreate them with the correct permissions. > > Somewhere within your XF86Config file you should have a 'Section > "InputDevice"' for your keyboard. Modulo any comments in the file, > that section should look something like this in your case: > > Section "InputDevice" > > Identifier "Keyboard1" > Driver "Keyboard" > > Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30" > Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" > Option "XkbModel" "microsoft" > Option "XkbLayout" "gb" > > EndSection > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > -- > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks > Savill Way > Tel: +44 1628 476614 Marlow > Fax: +44 0870 0522645 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message