Keyboard-problems (german)

[Jens Stroebel]

On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 06:47:47PM +0300, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 04:16:55PM +0200, Jens Stroebel wrote:
> > 1)
> > First and foremost, the keyboard allows no switching from X to
> > the console; there are no symbols like @ or | available, as
> > they would need a modifier (at least on my german keyboard).

> You almost certainly don't have a proper XKB dataset available.
> Have you got xkeyboard-config (aka xkbdesc) installed?

No, perhaps I haven't (if it doesn't come with the git_xorg-
script-checkout I did to get the sources).
 	....
Mrmpf..  found it. It seems like there is no way to get
xkeyboard-config via git, yet. Ok so far, but it isn't mentioned
anywhere, so how could one know one needs it?

Anyway, unfortunately the installation of said package/module
didn't change anything. There is still no modifier available :((
and so there is 
	a) no way to change to console
	b) no way to get @ | and other modifier-dependent symbols
	   out of X

It makes no difference if this is xkeyboard-config (0.9 from tar)
or a fresh cvs-checkout of xkbdesc.

		Thanks for your answer anyway, though.
			greets,
			  Jens
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