keyboard problems
Hello,
I got a Sanyo XT with two 5.25 drives and without any harddisk. I made a root and a boot floppy on my linux-pc with the command:
fdformat /dev/fd0d360 ; dd if=boot of=/dev/fd0d360 bs=1k count=360 fdformat /dev/fd0d360 ; dd if=root of=/dev/fd0d360 bs=1k count=360
Everything works fine, but when the Login-prompt is shown, and I try to type "root", only cracy signs appear.
I'm using a German keyboard, because I live in Germany. I tried several other old keyboards, but none of them worked. Is there anyone with a non-us keyboard and knows what to do? Or must I buy an us keyboard ?
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cu, Johannes Wei�l (sorry for my bad english)
Hi Johannes.
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I got a Sanyo XT with two 5.25 drives and without any harddisk. I made a root and a boot floppy on my linux-pc with the command:
fdformat
/dev/fd0d360; dd if=boot of=/dev/fd0d360 bs=1k count=360 fdformat/dev/fd0d360; dd if=root of=/dev/fd0d360 bs=1k count=360
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Everything works fine, but when the Login-prompt is shown, and I try to type "root", only cracy signs appear.
I'm using a German keyboard, because I live in Germany. I tried several other old keyboards, but none of them worked. Is there anyone with a non-us keyboard and knows what to do? Or must I buy an US keyboard ?
It's true that the German keyboard has a different layout to the standard US one, but the general layout is still the same, and you should still get the standard ASCII characters when you press the keys on their own.
However, if you're getting "Crazy signs" rather than normal ASCII characters, you have other problems than that, and the problem is more likely to be that you need an XT keyboard, but your keyboards are all AT ones - IBM in their wisdom changed the keyboard protocol between the XT and the AT, and you need the right one.
Best wishes from Riley.
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Hello,
I'm using a German keyboard, because I live in Germany. I tried several other old keyboards, but none of them worked. Is there anyone with a non-us keyboard and knows what to do? Or must I buy an us keyboard ?
Why not build your own elks kernel?
I am using this in .config:
.....
#
# Select a console driver
#CONFIG_CONSOLE_DIRECT=y
# CONFIG_CONSOLE_BIOS is not set
# CONFIG_CONSOLE_SERIAL is not setCONFIG_DCON_VT52=yCONFIG_DCON_ANSI=y
# CONFIG_DCON_ANSI_PRINTK is not set
# CONFIG_KEYMAP_US is not set
# CONFIG_KEYMAP_BE is not set
# CONFIG_KEYMAP_UK is not setCONFIG_KEYMAP_DE=y
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^<-------------------!!!
# CONFIG_KEYMAP_DV is not set
# CONFIG_KEYMAP_ES is not set
# CONFIG_KEYMAP_FR is not set
# CONFIG_KEYMAP_SE is not setCONFIG_DCON_KRAW=y
.......
Cheers,
Albrecht