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german keyboard layout and man temp problems

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Matthias
2005-01-16
2013-05-09
  • Matthias

    Matthias - 2005-01-16

    hi guys

    excellent work, i love colinux :)

    but i have a (small) bunch of problems:

    - i'm using colinux on my winxp notebook with german keyboard layout. i'm using the 2.4 debian image from sf.net and installed console-tools and console-data
    reconfiguring to a german keymap works, bt i can't use special chars (| ~ @ { [ ] }  and so on)
    the hint i read on the mailing list about ~/.inputrc doesn't work
    using the keys through ssh works fine

    - i have both bridged and tap network running. in tap mode, colinux can't ping itself, but the host
    in bridged mode, they can ping each other and ssh works, but services like samba don't (connection refused)

    - debian related?
    man anypage brings up "man: can't create a temporary filename: Permission denied", even as root

    thanks for your answers :)
    greets
    matt

     
    • AndreasB

      AndreasB - 2006-12-19

      I have the same Keyboard problem with the Swiss-German keyboard layout.
      I Have installed andLinux, if i have change the Layout according to http://wiki.colinux.org/wiki/CoLinuxKBD .
      I have alway the Slash ("/") next the left Shift Key, thats the English layout, but i have there the "-" key on the keyboard....

      Has anybody a solution?
      Thanks!

      Andreas

       
      • Gerhard Eichhorn

        Keymapping:
        There is a nice tool for it:

        dpkg-reconfigure console-data

        With my first installation of colinux-debian(Debian-3.0r2.ext3-mit-backports.1gb.bz2), it did the job very well (Swiss-German).

        But the new debian:Debian-4.0r0-etch.ext3.1gb ignores the results.
        First of all the it wasn't installed.
        Secondly it didn't change the keymapping

         
    • Henry N.

      Henry N. - 2008-02-16

      Packet "kbd" is nessesary to have german keys.

        apt-get install console-data
        apt-get install kbd

      After finish installling "kbd" in Debian-4.0r0-etch.ext3.1gb you will see
      Setting up console-common (0.7.69) ...
      Looking for keymap to install:
      de-latin1
      Setting up kbd (1.12-17) ...
      Setting console screen modes and fonts.

       

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