On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 04:28:58 +0100 (MET)
Mats O Jansson <maja@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Anders Wallander wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> > Started using OpenBSD recently.
> > Having troubles changing to Swedish keyboard.
> > The afterboot sais "Some architectures permit keyboard type
> > control". Said and done, I both type "kbd sv" and with sudo created
> > the file/etc/kbdtype holding the string "sv" followed by reboot.
> > With no succes whatsoever. Searched for the problem on the net and
> > found some old reports that this wasn't supported on alpha, but that
> > was 1999. Havn't someone fixed this by now? or is it a big bummer on
> > the subject? I run OpenBSD 3.4 on a Alpha Workstation 433au.
>
> I have the same machine and a swedish keyboard. I have no problems
> at all. In what way don't you have any success?
>
> what does "wsconsctl keyboard.encoding" tell you?
>
> does å, ä and ö work in vi or mg?
>
> mg might need "<esc> x meta-key-mode" to enable eight bit characters.
>
> does it work in ksh? you might need "set +o emacs-usemeta" to enable
> eight bit characters.
>
> -moj
>
> >
> > All the best
> > Anders
I found out that /etc/X11/XF86Config still had settings for US-keyboard,
changed to "se". Took a couple of seconds and a kill&restart of X and I
was back on the road. Thx for the advices, I will keep them i mind.
All the best,
Anders
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