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From: hendrik@hp2.ang-physik.uni-kiel.de (Hendrik Roepcke)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: German Keyboard... I want!
Date: 15 Feb 1995 09:30:04 GMT
Organization: Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Kiel, Germany
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References: <3hn4md$5@solid.theo-physik.uni-kiel.de> <1995Feb14.170337.4036@rhrk.uni-kl.de>
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weber@rhrk.uni-kl.de (Christoph Weber-Fahr [KIT]) writes:
>Hello,
>hendrik@hp2.ang-physik.uni-kiel.de (Hendrik Roepcke) writes:
>>Armed with 400k FAQ and 300MB Software I wanted to make my
>>FreeBSD 2.0R to show an "Î" after typing "Î" ("oe"), but I
>>coudn't manage it. I found german.iso.kbd and kbdcontrol for
>>it, but kbdcontrol -v -d only produces an error (inappropiate
>>io-device...)..
>kbdctrl -l /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/german.cp850.kbd
>By reasons I do not precisely understand the german.iso.kbd
>doesn't work for me (if I remember right, it produces the correct Umlauts,
>but fails on stuff like ><| ect... ).
I was wondering about that too.
Anyway, my foult: I tried to type the above-line from an xterm (root),
but it failed with "inappropiate ioctl". Switching to text-mode and
entering the line from console (root), everything works fine. Now I
installed the line in rc.local...
Thanx for your help....
Hendrik
--
Dipl.-Phys. Hendrik S. Roepcke (aka Panther) Institut fuer Angewandte Physik
Universitaet Kiel, Olshausenstr. 40 D-24098 Kiel
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