Hi, I need help using openSUSE on my German PC. It seems to ignore some of the keys, like @ and the Euro sign. It is kind of cumbersome to simulate a US keyboard on a German.
What is required to accept German PC settings?
I also tried Ubuntu recently, and that worked right away.
Thanks Kay
Kay,
that should normally work just fine with a normal keyboard. What keyboard do you have?
Is that on the command line or in Gnome/KDE/other GUI? If the latter, which one?
Uwe
Uwe, I think I’ll be using an OS that works without having to tweak it. Ubuntu worked right away from the CD, and I was hoping openSUSE would do the same.
FYI, I’ve tried it both on my German laptop and my German desktop, the latter is brand new.
Sorry no cigar.
Kay
On 09/03/2008 mvhakon wrote:
> Uwe, I think I’ll be using an OS that works without having to tweak
> it. Ubuntu worked right away from the CD, and I was hoping openSUSE
> would do the same. FYI, I’ve tried it both on my German laptop and my
> German desktop, the latter is brand new.
Bizarre. I can only imagine you didn’t choose the proper keyboard layout during installation.
> Sorry no cigar.
Nah, your loss 
Enjoy Ubuntu!
Uwe
Myself installed openSUSE on several machines with German keyboard. Desktops, laptops, x86 and PPC and i had all kind of trouble but never with the keyboard. Right now using an Apple TiBook with German keyboard and i did not even have to bang on the settings one time.
Stupid question maybe, but have you tried to change the keyboard setting with YAST (or directly sax2)? Is this a problem of the X-Server solely or the console?
That problem only existed for me with YDL.
hello all,
i am facing the same problem and was fighting for days to find a solution. so far no success! have a fujitsu-siemens keyboard (kb scd). linux 11 with kde3 refuses to give me the chance to type german “umlaute” and the @ sign, which is really nasty. tried to get it with yast2 and sax2, but to no avail.
does anybody know, how to check, what’s wrong?
btw: on a linux 10.3 installation it works fine.
What does your /etc/X11/xorg.conf read in the inth Section “InputDevice” Option “XkbLayout”? It should read “de” imho. Could be worth a try to change this by editing the file.
> i am facing the same problem and was fighting for days to find a
> solution. so far no success! have a fujitsu-siemens keyboard (kb scd).
> linux 11 with kde3 refuses to give me the chance to type german
> “umlaute” and the @ sign, which is really nasty. tried to get it with
> yast2 and sax2, but to no avail.
> does anybody know, how to check, what’s wrong?
If you don’t know the solution, how can you know it is the same problem?
It is much better to start your own thread.
KDE3 or 4?
Uwe
thank you all for your help.
i solved the problem by reinstalling linux 11.0
from thr dvd image, burnt on a goot dvd.
german keyboard works right from the
first reboot after installation.
maybe my problem of not having been able to switch the
german keyboard was a buggy installation. i had installed the linux 11 from the live-cd and the opensuse ftp-server over the web.
i can only suggest to always install from the dvd.
that’s it.
thank you all again.
vena8
thank you all for your help.
i solved the problem by reinstalling linux 11.0
from the dvd image, burnt on a good dvd disk.
german keyboard works right from the
first reboot after installation.
maybe my problem of not having been able to switch the
german keyboard was a buggy installation. i had installed the linux 11 from the live-cd and the opensuse ftp-server over the web.
i can only suggest to always install from the dvd.
that’s it.
thank you all again.
vena8