From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from 24.213.60.123.up.mi.chartermi.net ([24.213.60.123] helo=front1.chartermi.net) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 161eYK-0007PM-00 for ; Wed, 07 Nov 2001 21:04:24 -0500 Received: from [24.196.69.180] (HELO maranatha) by front1.chartermi.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5b2) with ESMTP id 29326898; Wed, 07 Nov 2001 21:04:28 -0500 Received: from chomiak (helo=localhost) by maranatha with local-esmtp (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 161ea1-0000As-00; Wed, 07 Nov 2001 20:06:09 -0600 Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 20:06:09 -0600 (CST) From: Cheryl Homiak To: "blinux-list@redhat.com" , speakup Subject: keyboard dilemmas 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: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: When I use speakup, it has its own keymap and that isn't a problem. However, I have been loaned a braillelite and am using that more than speakup; I also use emacspeak at times. My problem is that none of the keymaps I have loaded seems to be quite right. As far as I know I have a standard us qwerty keyboard; would be 100 or 101 keys, depending on whether or not you are supposed to count the space bar. On my system, I've tried the us international iso8859-1, whatever keyboard the kernel installed, the plain qwerty us keyboard, the us-latin and whatever default keymaps were in /etc (some of these are of course duplicates). I either get a keypad where the right alt doesn't work, so that i have to do left alt plus F-1 to change consoles; this keyboard also doesn't respond to singlekey with lilo; I have to hit enter in addition. But the numeric keypad works. My other choice seems to be a keyboard where the right alt key work, singlekey is functioning, but the numeric keypad doesn't work. How do I go about finding a qwerty keymap that works; I really can't imagine that I would have to define my own keymap for this keyboard but something certainly isn't right. there