On Sat, 4 Feb 2006 13:18:56 +0100, Simon Ruderich wrote:

> My problem is now that some characters (like the curly brace) can  
> only be typed by using the alt-key. But if I press the alt-key and 8  
> for example then the console changes from this:
> livecd root #
> To this:
> (arg: 8)
> And I don't know what this means.
> Is there anything I can do to get the alt-key working?

This is nothing to do with the iBook hardware, my AMD64 box does it too.
The Alt key works but Alt-n giving (arg: n) appears to be a feature of
bash, although there's no reference to the Alt key in the bash manpage.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

In the begining, there was nothing.