keyboard alt key problem

oxide · n00b Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 44

Hi all.
Everytime i press Alt + 1 (or any other number key) i get the weird symbols from the ASCII table like the sign for copyright etc. My keymap is set to uk. I noticed the problem when trying to switch windows in irssi. I have the same problem with my phlak liveCD.
Please help :cry:

revertex · l33t Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 806

use "xev" to look if keycode is associated to the correct keysym.

oxide · n00b Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 44

Yes when i press Alt + 3 i see that 3 is being shown in the program. Sorry for delay :oops:

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lynxnyl · Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2004 7:33 pm Post subject:

Well, here's an example of my alt+1 response (xev | grep key):

state 0x18, keycode 64 (keysym 0xffe9, Alt_L), same_screen YES,
state 0x10, keycode 10 (keysym 0x31, 1), same_screen YES,
keys: 54 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Check what your output says after keysym - it should be something like above. I think this is what revertex meant.

oxide · n00b Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 44

i get this

lynxnyl · Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2004 8:16 pm Post subject:

well, xev shows Alt_L is being pressed. So it's not a hardware problem.

oxide · n00b Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 44

hm could it be caused by xorg.org ? I think before i installed xorg it was working fine. Pls tell me what to do in order to get rid of xorg

. btw i want to delete it anyway.

lynxnyl · Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 9:23 am Post subject:

Well, if you really want to get rid of xorg, then run emerge unmerge xorg-x11. Strange choice though.

oxide · n00b Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 44

I know but since i cant use my usb wireless mouse on it (and ive tried everything) then there is no point of having xorg.org. I even might switch to slackware 10. I dont like the usb mouse support on gentoo.

lynxnyl · Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 10:05 am Post subject:

I don't think USB support is distro specific. It depends on your kernel and settings. Or, less likely, the mouse won't work at all.

oxide · n00b Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 44

Yes i know but i have asked for help on the forums about the usb mouse and i changed the kernel settings properly but it still doesnt work and i get a weird error while compiling kernel. Ive started to hate gentoo when configuration is not finished, what about afterwards. Great performance but still, i dont think the pain in the ass is worth it.

lynxnyl · Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 10:39 am Post subject:

If you get a wierd error while compiling a kernel, try another version.
Always stop at the first error.

Your kernel is the most important thing.

oxide · n00b Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 44

hm ok first i have to remove my 2.4 kernel. I did "emerge -C gentoo-sources" and then went to /usr/src/linux and did "make clean" then i did ls -l /usr/src/linux and the 2.4 kernel was still there. So then i emerged gentoo-dev-sources to see if its going to overwrite it but it didnt. I went to /usr/src/linux and typed make menuconfig but the kernel config didnt showed up? How do i get rid of my 2.4 kernel so that i can install 2.6 afterwards?

lynxnyl · Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 11:27 am Post subject:

you already got rid of it. Just fix the symlink:

oxide · n00b Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 44

yup i did that and started to compile the kernel. But the compilation stops and i see a line starting with "if" and continuing to right side of the monitor. Am i supposed to see something like "Compilation successful" when the kernel has compiled successfuly? Btw, i ignored the mistake and started xorgconfig, i configured it and after startx my usb mouse still wasnt working (yes i have activated HID and some other usb stuff).

lynxnyl · Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 1:02 pm Post subject:

No, that's ok, when the kernel compile finishes, the last line you see is that if clause.

Don't forget to move the new image and system.map to /boot and fix lilo. Then restart and you should have the new kernel running. No use of doing anything before that - you're still running your old kernel.

oxide · n00b Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 44

Wow man thanks i got my usb mouse working and i have the feeling gentoo is starting faster. I was wondering how do u get these cool themes on gentoo like this one http://www.gentoo.org/images/shots/alexander.png . Btw i spreciate all the help u gave me

thanks

lynxnyl · Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 2:39 pm Post subject:

Great!

You can apply themes to your desktop, eg. KDE(...). Kde has it even automized in 3.3.
You can get themes at www.kde-look.org etc etc, just search a bit.

oxide · n00b Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 44

OMG im so dumb! I have a windows NTFS file system so i did make menuconfig to change the settings to that i can mount my windows partition. So after compilation i copied the System.map file and the image file to /boot and rebooted gentoo. When gentoo started i saw BIOS Checking Successful, Uncompressing Linux, ran out of input data, System halted. I thought /boot might be full because of the files from different kernels so i put gentoo livecd and mounted /boot and i deleted the old 2.4 kernel files. After boot the same problem showed up. Ive just had my gentoo running well and i f**ked it up :cry:

lynxnyl · Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 3:48 pm Post subject:

Boot off a LiveCD and edit your lilo.conf or grub.conf appropriately(with the new kernel image name). You either forgot to do that before, or forgot to run lilo afterwards(which would apply the new settings).

oxide · n00b Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 44

yup everything is ok now, thank you very very very much

lynxnyl · Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 7:59 pm Post subject:

Great!

Nothing is better than happy linux users.