[Sunhelp] How do I change the keyboard layout in x86?

Bertrand Hutin hb at ardentsoftware.fr
Tue May 25 02:52:58 CDT 1999


Peter Sderholm wrote:
> 
> Hi Everybody !
> 
> When installing Solaris on my laptop I managed to choose the wrong type of
> keyboard. Now I cant seem to find
> any command or file for changing it to what it should be. I have all the
> little peculiar characters that UNIX relies so much on in
> all sorts of strange places. The ~ I cant find at all, which means I cant
> use tip (~t). On the type I have installed the / (rather useful one) is at
> the rightmost lower corner just left to the rightmost shift key. On the type
> I need, which is a Swedish/European layout, a _ and - should be on that key,
> and the / should be <shift> + 7.
> 
> I think my keyboard type is called ISO latin 1 in Linux (On the same HD and
> the keyboard is OK).
> 
> /*
> Im sorry for asking such basic question. Im sure its on the answerbook CD.
> However with the speed of Solaris and the applet viewer
> the answerbook CD can not be used at all, either on my Sparcstation 2 or
> Pentium 133 (which seem to run at about the same speed with the SS2 slightly
> faster). It just sits there for 15 minutes or soo and then it scrolls one
> single line then another 15 minutes. OK I know I'm whining (and
> excaggerating) but Solaris would be so much more brilliant if it was really
> fast. (The same goes for Java too. Makes me kind of wonder what sort of
> blasting workstations the guys had who wrote this software)
> */
> 
> Thanks for any help
> Peter Soderholm
> 
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there is a command named: kdmconfig 
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