How can I make lang=de work???

Forum: HD Install
Topic: How can I make lang=de work???
started by: dsl_nicht_blicker

Posted by dsl_nicht_blicker on April 02 2006,15:47

Hello,
I'm a new user of DSL, I have installed ist on an old PC mainly to go online.

Everything works fine, exept the german keyboard. When I boot DSL from CD, and enter after pressing F2 "dsl lang=de", everything is OK. When I boot from Disk, there are no umlauts, only {}\[]@.

I have edited /boot/grub/menu.lst, I tryd both "dsl lang=de" and "lang=de" at different places in the string. Nothing works. I looked at every config-file I could find, all seems to be right, even the "y" and the "z"-keys are at the right places, but the umlauts are not there.

System Stats shows also, that everything shold be right.

Can anybody please help me? For I'm not very expirienced with Linux, please talk a litte bit slower. Thanks!

Posted by roberts on April 02 2006,19:20

I believe that users are better off using

de-latin1-nodeadkeys

instead of just

de

So, please try that one.

Posted by anaconda on April 02 2006,19:27

Yep
And if you have wrong keyboard when DSL starts you can change the keyboard from "control panel" Just select the "de-lati..". Keyboard starts to work after x is restarted.

Posted by dsl_nicht_blicker on April 03 2006,19:14

Thanks for your answers, but exactly this is the problem. The control panel shows, that I'm already using the de-latin1-nodeadkeys, also in system-stats everything looks right:

lang="de_DE@euro"
contry="de"
language="de"
charset="iso8859-15"
Keytable="de-latin1-nodeadkeys"
xkeyboard="de"

When I boot form CD and press F2, so I can enter the boot-option lang=de, everything is OK.

When I boot from HD with the same option in the grub menu.lst, it doesn't work.

By the way, when I change the keybord with the control-panel, nothing happens at all. I can choose any of the languages offerd, and the keybord stays as it was before.

I realy dont have any idea, whats going on. I spent several hours checking config-files and trying everything I could imagine. I installed the system at least 3 times, its *always* the same.

There must be a mistake somewhere, but where it is?

.
Maybe I should give up and try later again....

Posted by I went to bed very late on April 05 2006,22:30

This is the way I do it:

I added this to the bootlocal.sh:

loadkeys /location/where/your/keymaps/are/lying/search-for-the-full-de-latin-kmap-name

or even

sudo loadkeys /location/where/your/keymaps/are/lying/search-for-the-full-de-latin-kmap-name

In my case it works with the german keys. loadkmap didn't work, though.

Posted by dsl_nicht_blicker on April 10 2006,18:10

Thanks for this tipp, strange things happen, but it works.
I get the message "findkeymap: No such file or directory" when enter the string in a shell, and nothing changes.

But now I put it in the bootlocal.sh, and even though the same message appears on startup, the umlauts are here at last: öäüß

Well, thats all I wanted, even if I dont understand, why it works.
Thanks again very much!!!