Caps Lock issue

[fuegos]

Hello,

I have successfully installed and configured 3.8.4 on HP t5520. It works much better than original windows ce. I only got one small issue with Caps Lock - I have to press button 3 times to switch it off. System runs Xvesa-7.1 (nozap) and uk.kmap... Can anyone please help?

Many thanks

[tinypoodle]

I have noted that same behaviour since at least 2.x.
IIRC the other Xvesa extension may not produce such.

[fuegos]

The only reason i went for Xorg's Xvesa is nozap working flawlessly. Ctrl+Alt+Del killing X is just gruesome for all users remoting to Windows (task manager funcionality is essential in their jobs). Where can i find other working Xvesa's or old version of Xorg? There is nothing i could find in the App Browser...  I only need nozap and proper keyboard handling... Thanks.

[tinypoodle]

Xvesa.tcz ?

[althalus]

The only reason i went for Xorg's Xvesa is nozap working flawlessly. Ctrl+Alt+Del killing X is just gruesome for all users remoting to Windows (task manager funcionality is essential in their jobs). Where can i find other working Xvesa's or old version of Xorg? There is nothing i could find in the App Browser...  I only need nozap and proper keyboard handling... Thanks.

Sort of related, but I always thought ctrl+alt+backspace killed X, not ctrl+alt+delete?

[Rich]

Hi althalus

but I always thought ctrl+alt+backspace killed X

That is correct.

not ctrl+alt+delete?

If I read  /etc/inittab  correctly, that should execute  /sbin/reboot

[tinypoodle]

One way to find out...

[fuegos]

Xvesa.tcz ?

 I have tried Xvesa.tcz but used together with -nozap will not load X (cursor blinks for some time, then returns to shell). I found it working only with Xvesa-7.1.tcz but then again there is a Capslock problem...

Hi althalus

but I always thought ctrl+alt+backspace killed X

That is correct.

not ctrl+alt+delete?

If I read  /etc/inittab  correctly, that should execute  /sbin/reboot

In my case both ctrl+alt+del and ctrl+alt+backspace kill X, although pressing ctrl+alt+del twice reboots the system.

[coreplayer2]

really?  that's interesting,  so I just ran around several pc's running tc with Xorg-7.6.tcz.   Seems as if ctrl+alt+del is functional up to text mode, however once X is running ctrl+alt+del is disabled ?? (grep reports an addition busybox key combination fwiw)  Maybe it's the kernel, or busybox but so far (maybe X version dependent?) ctrl+alt+del has not initiated a reboot once fully booted to an X desktop.


ctrl+alt+backspace terminates X while
ctrl+alt+F1 returns to text mode and
ctrl+alt+F2 restores X    (perhaps not technically the correct phrases)

AIUI  you have the ability to set no zap in the xorg.conf file, you'll still have the magic Sysrq keys - REISUB, these apparently can also be disabled


Anyhow,  the magic key combination " Alt+SysRq+B " will reboot the linux machine and according to the wiki so will " echo b > /proc/sysrq-trigger "

Isn't the Cap's Lock a BIOS issue ?

[curaga]

Did you try Xorg with nozap configured (in xorg.conf)?

[tinypoodle]

An alternative approach would be to remap the capslock key out of reach

[fuegos]

I'm loading Xorg-7.5.tcz right now to test. Disk space available on thin client is limited to 64MB so i have to be very careful with the software i install. I'll post a follow up when tested. Cheers.

[fuegos]

CapsLock and nozap works as it should now. Another issue is the screen resolution i can't change! I have followed all steps from http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:using_xorg_over_xvesa but it seems to be stuck in 800x600. Also keyboard layout remains us when i set it to gb... Any clues guys?

[Juanito]

it would make it easier to help if you could post the relevant part of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf

[fuegos]

it would make it easier to help if you could post the relevant part of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "ServerLayout"
   Identifier     "X.org Configured"
   Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
   InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
   InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
   ModulePath   "/usr/local/lib/X11/modules"
   FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
   FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
   FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF"
   FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
   FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
   Load  "glx"
   Load  "dri"
   Load  "extmod"
   Load  "dbe"
   Load  "freetype"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
   Identifier  "Keyboard0"
   Driver      "kbd"
   Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
   Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
   Identifier  "Mouse0"
   Driver      "mouse"
   Option       "Protocol" "auto"
   Option       "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
   Option       "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
   Identifier   "Monitor0"
   Option       "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
   Identifier  "Card0"
   Driver      "vesa"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
   Identifier "Screen0"
   Device     "Card0"
   Monitor    "Monitor0"
   DefaultDepth 10

   SubSection "Display"
      Viewport   0 0
      Depth     16
      Modes "1280x1024_60.00"
   EndSubSection
EndSection


I couldn't save that file in /etc/x11 as it was keep disappearing after reboot so i have placed it in /home/tc instead and changed the path in /opt/.filetool.lst respectively. Am i doing something wrong saving files in /etc folder?