Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: > > We have several GW machine here. But I haven't had a hand on new PIII with > Rage128 yet. > > How do you set up XF86Config. Have you check XKB enable/disable in > XF86Config? > > That's the point I'll look into first. > > On Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 03:53:18AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > I've recently installed Debian on a new Gateway PIII-400. Everything is > > dandy, except in the X Window System some of my keys don't work, > > particularly the arrow keys and page-up/page-down keys. It doesn't > > matter what wm I'm using. > > > > I do get an error about some non-fatal xkeyboard xmapper problem, but I > > don't think that's it because I've seen this message on other boxen and > > they didn't exhibit this same behaviour. Besides, a search on the Debian > > mail archives found the exact error text (I don't have the text > > available at the moment), and the posters don't mention the > > non-functioning keys symptoms that I have. (BTW, I never saw any > > follow-up answers to those questions -- does no one know the answer, or > > did I just not have an efficient enough search working for me?). > > > > I tried to read the manuals on xkeyboard/xmapper/console & X/etc, but > > couldn't make heads or tails out of it. I reckon I'm still too much of a > > newbie to understand Linux documentation (but I'm workin' on it...). > > > > BTW, I had to resort to the FBDev method of getting my X system to work > > with my currently-unsupported Rage128 video card; that may or may not > > have any bearing on my problem. > > > > Any clues would be appreciated. Thanks! > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > -- > ,-----------------------------------------------------------------------------. > | Chanop Silpa-Anan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > | Australian National University > | > | visit my web site (not yet finished) > | > | http://hilbert.anu.edu.au/~chanop/ > | > | FreeBSD PGP available upon request > | > `-----------------------------------------------------------------------------'
XF86Config is very simple; it doesn't even mention XKB enable/disable, but another copy of XF86Config has XKBDisabled commented out, and the man page implies that the XKBEXTENSION is enabled by default.
