Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 19:14:19 +0100 (CET) From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de> To: newbie@xfree86.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: XDMCP/Keyboardlayout problems in XFree401/FreeBSD 4.2-BETA Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011171912190.32886-100000@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de>
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Hello. Well, maybe my problems are really foolish - or i ran into real problems. I use a network of several FreeBSD 4.2 server and a bunch of diskless X terminals. The X terminals bioot their stuff from one of the servers. I hardcoded into the kernel a german keymap layout, but with a special console command I can change this to us.iso or anything else. This works fine for the console. But XFree 4 seems to get up messed a little bit. The XDMCP host runs XFree 3.3.6 due XFree 4.0.1 is not able to forward queries directly to the selected host (I reported this earlier here). The clients all run XFree 4.0.1 with the latest patches. Problem is now, that I start on ttyv0 the X server permanently and I configured the X server to us a German keyboard layout. But this is not working well! When selecting german.cp850 as the UNIX default console keymap, XFree serves me a German layout, but I can't use those key generated by the 'AltGr' Key in addition with the appropriate key to get the wanted sign. this is for @ AltGr-q. And I do not have German Umlaute, like "a etc. Console works fine, each key is in the right place. When using XFree 3.3.6 I can select the appropriate keyboard layout like the way I did in Xfree 4.0.1 (Option XkbLayout "de" in XF86Config), but Xfree 3.3.6 did the job while XFree 4.0.1 is not willing to change! What's up with XFree 4.0.1? I got a lot of unresolved problems with chooser when using XFree4.0.1's chooser to forward X requests ... this could only be solved by using the old 3.3.6-chooser. And now keyboard layout managing seems to be another problem. I posted earlier some questions about this problem which seems not to be FreeBSD specific because some of our Linux desktops have the same problem. Can anybody help? Oliver - MfG O. Hartmann ------------------------------------------------------------------- ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de Klimadatenserver-Abteilung des IPA IT Netz- und Systembetreuung Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz Becherweg 21 D-55099 Mainz BRD/Germany Tel: +496131/3924662 FAX: +496131/3923532 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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