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Conference wrksys::alphastation

Title:	Alpha Workstation Conference
Notice:	See note 1.* for conference notices
Moderator:	WRKSYS::HOUSE

Created:	Wed Sep 07 1994
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1996
Total number of notes:	9122

1903.0. "Alphastation 255: no @ with LK46W-AG" by MUNICH::AUEROCHS (Stephan Auerochs, CSC Munich) Wed Mar 19 1997 09:44

A customer has an Alphastation 255 with keyboard LK46W-AG (german version). Show
config gives srm: V6.2-2.
On the consoleprompt and also after booting OpenVMS he can't type "@". Normally
you type <compose char/Gruppenumschaltung> + <q> to get "@" with german
keyboard, but he gets the string "LK411" or "PCXAL", the same string he sets in
the console variable kbd_hardware_type. 
Also he gets this string if he types F3.
You can imagine that this is a big problem with using OpenVMS. I have neither
Alphastation 255 nor a LK46W-AG to examine this behaviour, so I need hints for
solving this problem.

Thanks! 
Stephan

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
1903.1	Right Language and Keyboard Settings?	XDELTA::HOFFMAN	Steve, OpenVMS Engineering	`Wed Mar 19 1997 13:06`	5
	What are the DECwindows Motif (CDE?) language and keyboard settings? (This looks more like a DECwindows question, and might be better suited to the folks over in the DECwindows conference.)
1903.2	Be sure to configure Motif keymap	STAR::jacobi.zko.dec.com::jacobi	Paul A. Jacobi - OpenVMS Systems Group	`Wed Mar 19 1997 13:09`	13
	Make sure you configure Motif to select the proper keyboard map. Motif support about a half-dozen different Austrian/German keyboard mappings. I'm not sure which one works the best for LK46W-AG, but suggest that you try them all and see which setting works the best. Also you can use the crude tools XEV and XMODMAP to manually re-assign particular keys. -Paul
1903.3	console/vms-prompt problem	MUNICH::AUEROCHS	Stephan Auerochs, CSC Munich	`Fri Mar 21 1997 06:09`	17
	This problem is not a Motif/DECwindows problem. You cannot type the "@" at the console prompt or OPA0. New facts: The customer told me he already gets the "LK411"-string if he types the compose key ("Gruppenumschaltung"), and if he types "q", then the "q" character appears too; so the compose key does not behave as usual. After upgrading with firmware V3.8, the behaviour changed: now with typing compose key nothing appears but an additional "q"-key still gives "q". He found that he can produce the "@" character with typing "Alt function" ("Zusatzfunktion") + "q" key. Further tests show that the german special characters (umlaute) also give other results as expected, for example "d" instead of "�". I supposed that it may be a hardware problem with the keyboard because of the irregular keymapping and suggested replacing the keyboard. I'm waiting for the result. Thanks! Stephan
1903.4		STAR::KLEINSORGE	Fred Kleinsorge, OpenVMS Engineering	`Fri Mar 21 1997 10:09`	5
	When in console mode, the console firmware program is doing all of the KB handling and translation.