setting up Dosemu

metalearth · 07-13-2007, 03:46 PM

When pressing enter I get the message
ERROR: Unable to open console to evaluate the keyboard map.
Please specify your keyboard map explicitly via the $_layout option

Junior Hacker · 07-13-2007, 07:50 PM

In a terminal, if you type: man keyboard, you'll get the man (manual) page for keyboard. There is an "option" called "layoutname", which shows you how to set the language configuration for the keyboard. The file that specifies this setting is /etc/X11/xorg.conf, below is a section of my xorg.conf file specifying to use Englis US keymap.

Code:

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Generic Keyboard"
    Driver         "kbd"
    Option         "CoreKeyboard"
    Option         "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option         "XkbModel" "pc104"
    Option         "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

What is yours set too?.

metalearth · 07-14-2007, 07:41 AM

Dear JuniorHacker

heres that section. How does this do anything to Dosemu ?

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
Option "XkbOptions" "lv3:ralt_switch"

Junior Hacker · 07-14-2007, 10:16 AM

Obviously your keyboard map is already set to Great Briton already, and possibly the model is OK at pc105. So... not sure what it's complaining about, it appears to be set.

metalearth · 07-15-2007, 08:24 AM

Dear Junior Hacker I have been told that DosBox is a good alternative and am using this, but still have Dosemu on my machine in case I can solve the setup problem.