keyboard problems

keyboard problems

[Johannes Weißl]

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 ?

-- 
cu,
Johannes Weifll
(sorry for my bad english)

Re: keyboard problems

[Riley Williams]

Hi Johannes.

> 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 ?

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.

Re: keyboard problems

[Albrecht Kleine]

> 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 set
CONFIG_DCON_VT52=y
CONFIG_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 set
CONFIG_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 set
CONFIG_DCON_KRAW=y
.......

Cheers,
Albrecht