On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 12:37:05AM +0200, Alexey Orishko wrote: > On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 12:25 AM, Ken Moffat <zarniwh...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > > I very much doubt it - you *might* be able to detect how many keys > > exist, and I guess that the options within full (e)udev or systemd > > will probably notice the "extra" keys (sleep, mail, etc) in certain > > keyboards - particularly for laptops, but might also work on > > "regular" keyboards with those extra keys - but identifying which > > key symbol has been etched onto a keycap is not going to happen. > > I'm looking for a solution for desktop only. > For example, while installing Ubuntu desktop or server, it always > successfully detects my keyboard (no-latin1), so I wonder if there is > any application I could include in blfs to do the same trik. > > Regards, > Alexey
Really ? I haven't installed a distro for about 3 years - that was ubuntu, and from what I remember I had to specify the keymap (which is how I come to be using a horrible en_gb variant with dead keys on the ttys of that netbook). I can understand a distro making a likely guess about the desired keymap based on your language and locale - at least for some common combinations. Anyway, I do not see the use case (unless you are creating a distro for other people to install). If you build it yourself, you know what keymap is desired (and that might not be the same as what is on the keys, I think some people learn dvorak or other variant mappings without changing the keycaps). But you could always look at ubuntu's installer / scripts - they must be out there somewhere, but I don't know which package or script name would do this : the last time I looked, they were using console-tools which was not a patch on kbd in my opinion. ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
