get an AltGr / german keyboard layout

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get an AltGr / german keyboard layout

Postby galois » 27 Aug 2010, 18:23

Hi,

I have a iBook G4 and i want to get an "AltGr" key working for brackets etc. So i found a howto on the support page. so far it all went well but after repacking the keymap-file i wanted to activate the new mapping and there's a error:" there's no such directory or file". (See the code below). I hope someone could help me, thanks!

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[root@localhost ~]# cd /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwertz
[root@localhost qwertz]# gunzip de_CH-latin1.map.gz
gunzip: de_CH-latin1.map already exists; do you wish to overwrite (y or n)? y
[root@localhost qwertz]# echo "keycode 125 = AltGr" >> de_CH-latin1.map
[root@localhost qwertz]# gzip de_CH-latin1.map
[root@localhost qwertz]# cd /usr/sbin/kbdconfig
bash: cd: /usr/sbin/kbdconfig: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden



cheers galois
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Re: get an AltGr / german keyboard layout

Postby ppietro » 31 Aug 2010, 05:45

galois wrote:Hi,

I have a iBook G4 and i want to get an "AltGr" key working for brackets etc. So i found a howto on the support page. so far it all went well but after repacking the keymap-file i wanted to activate the new mapping and there's a error:" there's no such directory or file". (See the code below). I hope someone could help me, thanks!

Code: Select all
[root@localhost ~]# cd /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwertz
[root@localhost qwertz]# gunzip de_CH-latin1.map.gz
gunzip: de_CH-latin1.map already exists; do you wish to overwrite (y or n)? y
[root@localhost qwertz]# echo "keycode 125 = AltGr" >> de_CH-latin1.map
[root@localhost qwertz]# gzip de_CH-latin1.map
[root@localhost qwertz]# cd /usr/sbin/kbdconfig
bash: cd: /usr/sbin/kbdconfig: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden

cheers galois


I think I see the problem here. In your last step, you try to cd to /usr/sbin/kbdconfig. However - that is not a directory - that is a binary program. You want to do that without the cd - i.e.:

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/usr/sbin/kbdconfig


However - I think you're using the procedure here:
http://www.ydl.net/support/solutions/yd ... rman.shtml

If that's the case, you may run into more issues. That procedure appears to be for older versions of YDL - like 5.0 and previous. Specifically - I noticed step 2 asks you to edit XF86Config. I don't think YDL 6.0 uses that file anymore - that was for older versions of X11.

I'm away from my computer right now, but I'm pretty sure the new file is /etc/X11/xorg.conf . I think the structure is the same - but you may want to do some more research before you edit it. :D

Cheers,
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