Re: n00b questions -- keyboard messed up

On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 7:16 PM, John Doe <[email protected]> wrote:
> The keyboard mapping in the kernel is getting correpted when I use X
Windows
> Version 11 Release 6 Xenocara. B I am using a Microsoft(R) Digital Media
> Keyboard 3000. B How do I map the extra keys? and would it help if I used
> machdep.allowaperture=1 instead of 2? B Also kbd can change the keyboard
> mapping as a regular user, but it cannot list the available keyboard
mappings
> without being r00t, and it doesn't take effect until I log out and back in
to
> X-Windows. Why is this, and how do I type diacritical marks like circumflex
> carets and other accents, umlauts, ruotsalainen o, etc. in OpenBSD?
>

This thread belongs to misc@ and not www@

post your dmesg, /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log

for mapping keys in X see man xmodmap

Why machdep.allowaperture and what is done by this setting see
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=xf86&sektion=4 (man xf86)