Pressing shift+` doesn't give me a tilde. Grr. I set my keyboard layout to match my keyboard (Microsoft Internet Keyboard), but still nothing. Any ides?
Kill yourself.
Copy and paste. ~
EDIT -
Linux might be racist against your keyboard manufacturer.
Set your keyboard to a normal 104-key (or whatever)?
Tried several, 101-107, Microsoft Internet (which it is) and "Generic", but I can't make a tilde.
Try the other shift key?
Quote from: MyndFyrex86] link=topic=6389.msg76623#msg76623 date=1151049679]
Kill yourself.
Good advice! It really is too bad rabbit fails at following instructions. er... Read this! (My fail safe! :D)
Damn it. I read it.
I still can't make a damn tilde!
Quote from: Joex86] link=topic=6389.msg80021#msg80021 date=1152591346]
Try the other shift key?
It's really no help if you don't tell us if you tried it or not.
If I didn't try, why would I say it doesn't work?
Quote from: rabbit on July 12, 2006, 03:49:52 PM
If I didn't try, why would I say it doesn't work?
Because several things were suggested, and you didn't quote anybody. You also didn't say what you've tried in the past, which could help.
It would be nice to know what steps you've taken and what has failed to work.
Eg: have you tried a different keyboard? A different Linux (Knoppix, or something else off a cd)? Changing the keyboard mapping? Using the other shift? Copying/pasting the ~?
Try
dmesg | grep -i "key"
See if it has any messages about your keyboard. Also:
cat /var/log/messages | grep -i "key"
Different keyboards don't work.
Neither shift makes it.
dmesg and cat didn't give anything.
It worked on Slack a few months ago, and on my first install of Fedora.
Copy & paste works fine, but I don't want to have to do that every time I need to make a tilde.
Reinstall Slackware. Again.
Does it only happen in X? Or does it also happen in the TTY console?
O hell...not sure. I haven't gotten a TTY in a while (Fedora boots X and then runs its stuff)
Ctrl+Alt+F1
Tilde works in TTY -.-
Then we know it's a problem with X. That's a plus.
Can you run xorg.config or xfree.config or some program resembling one of those, set everything up, restart X, and see if that helps?
hwd -x > xorgconfig
unless of course you like answerring detail questions about your hardware that the machine could detect without asking you..
hwd doesn't come default with X. It's a specifically arch-Linux tool.
And anyways, "what resolution do you want?" and "what type of video card do you have?" aren't exactly difficult questions for somebody who knows anything .
I didn't know hwd was Arch specific, damn.
resolution and video card no, horizontal and verticaly sync rates, yes.
I've never gotten the sync rates wrong, and I know I've picked different ones. I don't think it makes a difference.
setting them too low is never a problem, you just might not get the optimal refresh rate.
setting them too high will fry your monitor. smoke and everything
60Hz refresh, some kind of video card which I can look up in system properties somewhere, and my resolution is 1200xsomething. I can find it all (it's downstairs). I'll try when I go into my room, which isn't often anymore due to my room being about 110F at any given point in time.
Yea...60hz kills my eyes. If you are lucky it'll list it on the back of your monitor, if you aren't you have to find a product spec sheet.
I feel sorry for your room, rabbit. Mine's in the basement, thank God.
As for your resolution, I think you meant 1280 x Something. Possible options are 1280x720, 1280x768, and 1280x1024.
Quote from: unTactical on July 14, 2006, 11:25:24 PM
Yea...60hz kills my eyes. If you are lucky it'll list it on the back of your monitor, if you aren't you have to find a product spec sheet.
60hz is fine, if it's an LCD.
My computer's drivers were messed up once, and I was getting something like 45hz. Talk about a headache!
It's CRT, and the only option in monitor preferences is 60Hz. It's fine for me :\
Anyway, I still haven't gone in there...
rabbit you clearly haven't tried my solution for everything. Get crackin at it, and let me know how it works out!
If I try your solution and it works, you'll never know.
I am prepared to accept that risk.
Quote from: rabbit on July 15, 2006, 04:57:15 PM
If I try your solution and it works, you'll never know.
I'll know because you'll have stopped complaining about the problem. See? Problem solved!
xfree.config xorg.config xfree.conf xorg.conf etc... none are programs. Hrm.
Quote from: rabbit on July 19, 2006, 12:26:31 PM
xfree.config xorg.config xfree.conf xorg.conf etc... none are programs. Hrm.
They are files. Hrm. Try editing them.
the program is "xorgconfig"
[root@rasputin spencer]# xorgconfig
bash: xorgconfig: command not found
He's on redhat/fedora iirc. I dunno what he uses. :/
Do me a favor if you haven't already.
ls /etc/X11/*conf* > http://www.x86labs.org:81/forum/index.php/topic,6389.html
[root@rasputin spencer]# ls /etc/X11/*conf* /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup
/etc/X11/serverconfig:
/etc/X11/sysconfig:
The script would probably be in /usr/X11R6/bin. But I don't know how to configure X on your distro, there's gotta be a configuration script, though.
I'm not sure if rabbit used Google, so...
Quote from: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=410035
The answer was here:
/questions/showthread.php?t=287973
(I am newbie, can't post URLs. You know the beginning.)
There is not xorgconfig at all. System-config-keyboard should make the changes to xorg.conf, but it is impossible to change the type of keyboard from AT to USB.
System-config-* perhaps?
[root@rasputin spencer]# System-config-keyboard
bash: System-config-keyboard: command not found
Did you RTFM? Or use Google on that? Come on, we aren't the be all, end all answer for this you know... :P
WTF! I've been lied to....
Anyway, nobody on Google seems to be having the sme problem.
Don't Google the problem. Google "System-config-keyboard" and your distro (Fedora Core 5 FC5?) and see what comes up.
I've done that too. I can't install it (says already installed). Pissha.
So look around for what files are linked to that. What files it installed, where you can use it, etc...
Says:
Already installed in /tmp/system-config-keyboard-1.2.7-1.1.noarch.rpm
Incidentally, that's what I'm attempting the install using.