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Date:      18 Nov 1999 01:23:32 +0100
From:      naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber)
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ALT+ASCII on numeric keypad?
Message-ID:  <80vgu4$2s5t$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de>
References:  <199911171944.LAA24752@www.geocrawler.com>

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Juan Kuuse <kuuse@quik.guate.com> wrote:

> How do I configure (sysconsole and X) my standard
> US keyboard so I can type any ASCII character
> having the ALT key pressed and using the numeric
> keypad?

For syscons, this is available by default.

> The us.iso.kbd keymap does not let me. :(

The loaded keymap has nothing to do with it. It's hardcoded into
the syscons driver.

I don't think XFree86 supports the desired functionality. Since
X11 is dealing with keysyms rather than character values, this
would be kind of cumbersome, I guess.

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                  naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de



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