Solved : Keyboard layout in laptop

gentoo_sonam · n00b Joined: 29 Oct 2006 Posts: 20

I installed gentoo on my Compaq Presario M2000 laptop. In the process I was asked for the keyboard layout. I chose it to be the US layout. But guess I am wrong. When the installation finished, I'm not able to key in the user name properly. When I press character 's' I get 1, when I do 'o' , I get a comma and so on. This is frustrating. What keyboard layout am I supposed to choose? I'm not even able to switch to my CLI mode...pls help

Shopro · Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 12:33 pm Post subject:

I remember someone having a similar problem before, make sure that num lock is not in use.
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Abraxa · Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 12:34 pm Post subject:

First off: what keyboard layout do you have?

If you already have SSH installed and added it to the boot or default runlevel then you can log on from a different machine and fix the issue.
If you have no way at all to access your box then you'll have to use a live CD and chroot. The Gentoo installation manual already has a nice chapter on the chrooting part but if you need help with that then please let us know.

As about fixing the keyboard layout - it's defined in /etc/conf.d/keymaps and on your system it will probably contain KEYMAP="us". You can set that to the keymap of your choice, for example "de". What keymaps exist can be examined by looking at /usr/share/keymaps/i386/.

Good luck =)

-Abraxa

nixnut · Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 6:42 pm Post subject:

Moved from Installing Gentoo to Other Things Gentoo.
Postinstallation issue, so moved here.
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gentoo_sonam · n00b Joined: 29 Oct 2006 Posts: 20

thanx for the reply guys....i've gt it workng with the default keyboard mapping...thanx a lot again...