Hi,

there is absolutely no X on that machine.
The keymap is just fine, what is not working is solely the AltGr Key.
Do you know how to map it right?
I was about trying with showkeys -s and the using it as input for setkeycodes, but I get more than one hex number, and I guess setkeycodes doesnt like that. An "" does not help...

Thanks in advance,
christopher

Keyboard configuration without X is a bit of a black art! If you can't sort out how to use the tools (I've never tried very hard), you can always alter the files directly.

The drivers are usually stored in /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/ in g-zipped form and should include the line
include "linux-with-alt-and-altgr"
which will set the AltGr key. What were you expecting it to do? Unlike in X, the UK and US keyboards only seem to use it with the symbol keys, like AltGr+7 giving {.

Don't forget you have compose sequences in the console for accented letters; the default is to press Alt+AltGr for Compose.

First of all, thank you for your time : )

And thanks for the tip, I will try that out...

I just wanted AltGr to work as used to, as the "3rd level chooser", if thats what its called like...

For the record,
man keymaps
will reveal some useful information about the console keyboard drivers
and the relevant commands for manipulation are
dumpkeys, loadkeys, getkeycodes, setkeycodes, showkey

In answer to the original question, the correct command was actually
showkey -k