I'd guess the kernel doesn't have that device built in. - erik
Murray Colpman <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi all, > >I'm an absolute beginner to Plan 9, I just installed it on my Raspberry >Pi for fun to have a see what it's all about. I understand this being a >very new build there are likely to be some issues, so do know that I'm >not holding my not-so-smooth experience against Plan 9 ;) > >After a lot of wrangling with getting it compatible with my custom boot >menu (actually a very hacky Linux binary that shoves the necessary >config files into the Raspberry Pi boot partition and reboots, each OS >having to manually put the boot menu config files back in place on >boot), helped by some very nice people in #plan9 on Freenode, I now move >onto the other problems. > >The biggest one for me, being a Dvorak user, is that I cannot get the >keyboard layouts working. I'm starting to form a vague idea in my head >about how Plan 9 is working, but I probably have a lot of things wrong, >so do bear with me. > >When I run the kbmap program, attempting to set a map flashes up an >error about not being able to find /dev/kbmap. Looking at the manpages, >it seems that /dev/kbmap is supposed to be brought in with bind -a >'#kappa' /dev (with kappa obviously replaced with the actual kappa >letter). I did snarf the kappa from the manpage, and I also tried typing >it on the keyboard in various ways (compose, *, k for instance), so I >don't think that the issue is that I'm unable to type kappa correctly. >Anyway, when I run this bind command, I get "bind: #kappa: unknown >device in # filename" (again, kappa replaced with the actual kappa). > > >Any ideas? > > >Thanks a lot, >Murray Colpman. > >
