[Solved] set correct keyboard mapping.

[lindis68]

Hi everyone.

I have a acer chromebook r11 cb5-132t that i succeeded installing debian 12 on , the only working distro on this laptop. ( sound issues .)

but i have a problem - couldnt set the correct keyboard mapping for it during installation , thought i could set it correct later .

So my question is how to do that - language is correct but not the key placement to this keyboard.

Have been looking everywhere in settings but cant find anyway to do this

Any help appreciated

/greets lindis68

[arzgi]

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arto@dell:~$ cat /etc/default/keyboard 
# KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION FILE

# Consult the keyboard(5) manual page.

XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="fi"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS="compose:menu,ctrl:nocaps"

BACKSPACE="guess"

The file requires root or sudo to edit.

[lindis68]

Hi arzgi..
tnx for the reply , ok trying to understand this.

edit the file keyboard as sudo , where can i find the keyboard manual chapter 5. is it a man page that i can read with terminal.

i need to find the correct xkbmodel for the chromebook keyboard. i guess i can find that info in that manual.
or is xkbmodel="pc105" the correct one , and xkblayout="sv" for this then.

/ lindis68

[lindis68]

Found some of interest on the net,
Xkbmodel="pc101" or Xkbmodel="chromebook"

Going to try this out tomorrow and see if that could make it work.

[lindis68]

Update.!

tried the xkbmodel settings just now , and didnt make any difference for my chromebook key functions.

first tried xkbmodel="chromebook" and now im on using xkbmodel="pc101".

so thats where im at right now.

any suggestions from some pro.

greets / lindis68

[arzgi]

The quote I wrote says guite clearly chek the man-page of keyboard for more info. Forgot to say, that after changing the file, you have to reboot (in the man page there was also an alternative method)

The man page can be viewed in the terminal

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man keyboard

I have no experince of chromebooks.

[lindis68]

well arzgi .. that was smoothe as butter my friend..

thank you very much for all help, those man pages was great - a lot there that i found helped me with other stuff.

cheers Lindis68