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- From: frank@marvin.contex.com (Frank Perdicaro)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Keymap problem with 4.0.5
- Message-ID: <2917@contex.contex.com>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 12:03:14 GMT
- References: <1992Aug26.193320.29417@photon.uucp> <pae9hes@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Sender: news@contex.contex.com
- Organization: Xyvision Design Systems
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- In article <pae9hes@zuni.esd.sgi.com> olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
- >In <1992Aug26.193320.29417@photon.uucp> jhp@photon.uucp (Jim Patterson) writes:
- >
- >| I upgraded one of my Indigos from 4.0.1 to 4.0.5 and I am having a very
- >| strange problem with the keymaps. A number of the non alphabet keys
- >| have been changed from their keyboard symbols. For example :
- >|
- >| / has become -
- >| ? has become _
- >| - has become +
- >| etc
- >
- >Sounds like you either have a beta of one of our international
- >keyboards, or somehow configured the system to believe that you
- >do have an international keyboard. Try using the 'Keyboard' program
- >from the tools menu on the toolchest to set it back to US, and see
- >if that fixes it. Try running '/etc/nvram > /usr/tmp/nv' first, and if
- >running the keyboard tool fixes it, I'd be interested in having you
- >mail me the contents of /usr/tmp/nv.
-
- I have used the keyboards(1) command in conjuction with our software.
- Works ok generally. There is one problem I see though. Say you
- cannot figure out how to log into graphics console Z. If, on machine
- X, you want to remotely run keyboards(1), and do "rsh Z keyboards",
- the only message you get is "Segmentation Fault(core dumped)".
- Not the most useful of error messages, but it does get the point across.
-
- Perhaps this could be fixed in the NextMajorRelease?
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