l2000 with ux11 and webconsole. X session keyboard layout

[Toni Niemi]

I have tried to delete /etc/kbdlang file to have new keyboard layout prompted next boot and to determine new layout with itemap command. No framebuffer device was the result. I have installed virtual frame buffer (Xvfb) but no succeed. I would appreciate any suggestions.

[Steve Steel]

Hi

The itemap command loads a keyboard mapping into the ITE (the graphics console driver), or displays ITE keyboard mappings. itemap is run by /etc/bcheckrc automatically. It is not usually explicitly invoked by the user.

Go to

http://www.techtarget.com/
select hp
search hp
ask xvfb
select the first answer
http://www.hp-partners.com/html/technical_information/Enovia/Xvfb_3DCom.htm

You will see
The Xvfb server does not accept input from physical input devices, such as a keyboard or mouse. Because of the lack of input devices, Xvfb is ill suited for highly interactive applications (e.g. it would be generally be unwise to run xterm on Xvfb

Thus explain what was wrong with the keymapping you had and we will look for a real solution.

I suspect stty and locale.


Steve Steel

[Toni Niemi]

Yes, sorry my bad explanation. I want to have scandic letters like "a" with umlauts to work from my finnish keyboard. At the moment I'm trying to take X connection with Hummingbird exceed. Usually I delete /etc/kbdlang or set it to PS2_DIN_Swedish and it works but in earlier case There was keyboard in the server really connected to PS2 port.

[Alex Glennie]

start Exceed -> Xconfig -> Input -> Keyboard Primary = ?

I suspect the problem is on the exceed client not the hpux system ......

[Toni Niemi]

I have configured my exceed primary keyboard. Now webconsole affects to the system so that there is no physical keyboard present. I think this is the problem witch cannot be worked around from client side... I have many older servers without this problems and a couple of new webconsoled servers, all with the same situation.

[Alex Glennie]

maybe worth looking at the contents of /etc/rc.config.d/LANG .... though I'm still not 100 % confident I know your exact problem ....

[Toni Niemi]

Well it is English keyboard layout by default and my old good ways to change keyboard layout to work with scandic letters which exists in finnish, swedish etc. keyboards has gone out of date... hp technical database says that delete /etc/kbdlang and boot, during boot one gets prompted to select a new keyboard layout. other technique is to use itemap -p -l keyboard_name -w /etc/kbdlang where I have used PS2_DIN_Swedish. These seems to work fine with reqular servers where one have display, mouse and keyboard physically attached to server but no more with servers controlled by webconsole and have no display, mouse or keyboard what so ever hardwired to the system.