Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2441 mails)

[ken <gebser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

AmigaPhil@xxxxxxx wrote:

>>I'm now suspecting a mess in the xorg-x11 installation (file missing or
>>such, as were the xorg docs and man pages), so I tried to re-install
>>the xorg-x11 core package (using yast).  This too failed (someting
>>related to permission denied).
>>
>>Is this due because the x-server is already running ?
>>How can I install the xorg-x11-6.8.2-30.i586.rpm from a command line
>>(or prior the x-server is running) ?
>>    
>>
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>My keyboard problem is still not fixed.  I received some feedback
>from the Suse support team, but with no help so far.
>
>I haven't been able to re-install the xorg package (or install a new
>one which may contain the bug fix I'm hunting ?).  Any help welcome.
>
>Can someone who is using the Suse 9.3 distribution with a working
>AZERTY keyboard (preferably a Belgium layout, but other may help too)
>send me his /etc/X11/xorg.conf file for me to compare ?
>  
>

In your /etc/X11/xorg.conf find the:

Section "InputDevice"
...
EndSection

that describes your keyboard.

Somewhere inside of that (I don't think it matters where), insert

Option    "XkbLayout"    "be-latin1"

I'm guessing that "be-latin1" is the one you want.  (I was in Belgium
only once and didn't know about configuring X then :).  There's a few
others you could choose from; look in /usr/share/kbd/
keymaps/i386/azerty/ and try a few until you get what you want.  Just
plug into the xorg.conf (in place of be-latin1) the filename without the
".map.gz" part on the end.

You can even "gunzip be-latin1.map.gz", edit it how you want, then "gzip
be-latin1.map.gz" back where it came from (though this will probably
give someone grand mal seizure).


hth.


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>Thanks.
>
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