X, Keymapping and aterm...

NonSumPisces · 06-15-2004, 12:19 AM

I installed the latest nvidia drivers on to my Slackware box yesterday, and the damn thing fucked a whole bunch of things up. I've managed to correct most of the problems, save two... The first and most annoying one is the keymapping of my keyboard. I'm swedish, ergo I want a swedish keymap. The shell recognizes my keymapping after much fiddling, but not anything running under X... I've tried editing the xf86config, the /etx/rc.d/dc.local and a bunch of other files too, but to no avail.

The second problem is just... Irritating. No matter what I do, I can't get my wm to show in 1280x1024 since that messed up nvidia driver was installed. Should I uninstall the driver completely? I've done A LOT of reserch on possible fixes for this, but no success so far...

The third irritation of the day is aterm. It won't go just partially transparant. When I try to set that option the root background disapears instead of getting shaded, and some very ugly blue-grayish-grid-pattern appears instead. Any suggestions?

And oh, my wm is Fluxbox 0.1.1.4, in case it should matter to any of this.

indeterminate · 06-15-2004, 01:27 AM

Yeah, those nvidia drivers can mess a lot of stuff up, mostly just from overwriting the XFree86Config-4 file. I know you checked there already, but humor me for a second; I don't know anything about your system.

In the "Input Device" section for your keyboard, is there a line that says:

Option "Xkblayout" "se"

? That should be the swedish keymap. You might also try "se_SE". As far as the resolution goes, I'd check to make sure that "1280x1024" is listed under all the Display Modes in the "Screen" section.

I have no idea about aterm, sorry.

Anyway, from the problems you're having and the ones I've had too, I'm definitely going to be backing up my XFree86Config-4 file before I install any nvidia drivers again.

NonSumPisces · 06-15-2004, 09:39 AM

Thx, but I've tried those things already.

Here's the display part of my xf86config.

Code:

Section "Screen"
    Identifier  "Screen 1"
    Device      "RIVA TNT2"
    Monitor     "Studioworks 900B"

    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes       "1280x1024"
        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection
EndSection

I've removed all lines that according to some ppl could be causing this, but no success.
Perhaps I should reinstall X. Any suggestions before I do that?