Debian Sarge on IBM X40 howto - Part 1: Keymap

After installing a clean Sarge system from an USB key with some of the nightly builds of the new Debian installer I ran into the first troubles. My keyboard didn’t function properly… even though I could write danish characters like “æøå”, I wasn’t able to shift through the virtual consoles with (Ctrl+Alt+F1 - F6).

dpkg-reconfigure console-data

revealed that the “specific keymap” was set to “Apple USB”. changing this to “Standard” helped.