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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!col.hp.com!sdd.hp.com!hp-pcd!hp-cv!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!engr.orst.edu!news.orst.edu!news.uidaho.edu!usenet From: "Faried Nawaz" <fn@uidaho.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Newbie 2.1 Impressions Date: 02 Jan 1996 18:43:18 -0800 Organization: People's Front Against WWW Lines: 28 Sender: nawaz921@hoodoo.cs.uidaho.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <imd992ngl5.fsf@hoodoo.cs.uidaho.edu> References: <4cbupd$gpr@kocrsv08.delcoelect.com> Reply-To: fn@uidaho.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: hoodoo.cs.uidaho.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: September Gnus v0.15 In article <4cbupd$gpr@kocrsv08.delcoelect.com> c23peg@mail.delcoelect.com (Perry Grieb) writes: $ I am now trying to figure out how to configure the keyboard and $ swap the left cntl key and caps lock key. I did this in linux and $ I believe it can be done in FreeBSD. I guess I need to boot up $ linux and review exactly what I did... Any pointers in this area $ would be appreciated. i'm assuming you're using syscons (the default console driver): dump the keyboard map (kbdcontrol -d > /tmp/dump) edit it and exchange the lctrl and clock entries save the map in /etc (i have /etc/keyboardmap, the name's irrelevant) edit /etc/sysconfig and set kbdmap to the map file. you're set. i have no idea how one does that with pcvt. someone (please!) tell me how i can remap the capslock key to control. $ Also, file protections seem to be different than under linux. $ I could not "su root". I think there was an installation or $ configuration screen that I may have blown past too fast here. $ I did not think it was important at the time. Probably just $ some misconfigured "group" somewhere (/etc/passwd or /usr/home?). yes. add yourself to the `wheel' group in /etc/group.