[Mageia-discuss] keyboard layout.

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Op woensdag 16 januari 2013 13:52:28 schreef Alexander Steidel:
> Am 16.01.2013 11:34, schrieb Pierre Jarillon:
> > Le mercredi 16 janvier 2013 01:12:18, Alexander Steidel a écrit :
> >>> Num lock is enabled, disabling it will solve this.
> >> 
> >> i had reinstalled it niw and then the keyboard is working now.
> > 
> > It was not necessary to reinstall it, just stop it with either:
> > - press the key numlock
> > - stop the service in MCC
> > - uninstall the package numlock with MCC
> > 
> >> but still got the problem with the usb drives and the wlan. ..
> > 
> > You cannot have any help with such a description. You must be accurate, we
> > cannot guess which is the problem.
> 
> hello,
> there was not a pronlem ith the numlock key/ for example on the mac
> keyboard is no numlock. and on the other keyboard i had tried it with
> numlock but the problem was still there.
> i think the installer was the problem. i had used the apple keyboard
> with us layout wit german software settings.
> as i reinstalled itm i had used the german keyboard. now it is working.
> for example there are few characyers that u only can find in german
> language, what i dont have on the us layout.
> but this problem is solved...

Yeah, this explains alot, so the keyboard was set to mac layout (so the 
external keyboard was too)

and the numlock service forced the numlock on.

so, 2 bugs here:
- don't install/set numlock if there is no numlock (macs)
- install new keymap for other keyboards?

plz file those bugs at https://bugs.mageia.org/

BTW: you should've said this was a mac and that there's no numlock ... that's 
pretty important info.

> usb and cd drive,,,, no automouting... after reinstalling it was
> suddenly working, until the first reboot... than again no
> automounting... i reinstalled then with kde desktop, automounting was
> working... i reinstalled the the gnome desktop .. automounting is still
> working ..
> so this problem is solved by reinstalling...

usb and cd aren't automounted, unless you specify as such.
livecds are an exception to that, because it needs it to boot.

in MCC, you need to set what you want automounted.

> last problem Atheros wifi.. not working in kde and not working in gnome.
> i think the problem is the istaller too, because during istalltion u can
> look at the network onnection, and there is the error message too.
> it says that the networkdriver ath9k.htc cannot find the atheros ub 91
> wifi onboard adapter.

network issues have nothing to do with kde or gnome. perhaps nonfree firmware 
is needed for yours to work. enable nonfree (Nonfree Release & Nonfree 
Updates) media in MCC, then go to device info, and see if it asks you to 
install something.

> the onboard wifi is working in other distros without an problems.
> fpr the installation i had used the 64 bit dvd gnome version.
> and i had istall it from a usb key.