From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from c1422183-a.ross1.pa.home.com ([65.9.87.151] helo=localhost) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 15G6Lh-0001Dx-00 for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 18:02:49 -0400 Received: from c1422183-a.ross1.pa.home.com (c1422183-a.ross1.pa.home.com [65.9.87.151]) by localhost (8.10.2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f5TM1qx25556 for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 22:01:53 GMT Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 18:01:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Frank Carmickle X-Sender: frankiec@localhost To: speakup Subject: Re: Keymap problem maybe? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.4 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Reply-To: frankiec@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Cheryl! Oh boy! Now you've really got me stumped. I thought we were talking about the same tree. OK! I am completely unsure of what the console-tools packages is trying to do or is doing. You may have a speakupmap loading which could cause this behavior with the alt key. To be honest I don't think your going to figure this out with out a little trial and error. What you need to do is find a regular usmap and invoke it with loadkeys. Finding a regular usmap may prove to be an interesting task on your system. Tommy currently has the standard usmap being the speakupmap. I hope that in future releases we can have a separate speakupmap. That would make this a bunch less confusing. You need to be really careful with this keymap stuff or you could really hose your machine pretty good. So I say start by backing up the keymap that's being loaded. Unfortunately this isn't the easiest thing in the world to figure out. If you have a look at /etc/init.d/keymap.sh you may be able to get an idea for what is happening. Unfortunately I don't have a system here that is loading a keymap. /etc/init.d/keymap.sh in my case actually does a dumpkeys from the kernel for some odd reason. Oh but yes this might actually be a good thing to try! When you have the nonspeakup kernel running do a 'dumpkeys >nonspeakupmap.map'. Probably just keeping this file in roots homedir /root isn't a bad place for it. Then do a 'loadkeys