Package: console-setup Version: 1.68 Severity: normal
I've just upgraded to Squeeze, trying to find a way to bring back my old heavily customized X11 keymap. I think I can state my problem in the cleanest way by describing how I did my search: - First I notice there is no xorg.conf. That's OK -- /usr/share/doc/ explains that the keyboard config has been unified. - Then I easily find /etc/default/keyboard, containing the new config. Trying to learn about this file is difficult though -- hard to tell which package it belongs to. Candidates are 'kbd', 'keyboard', 'console-setup'. "man -k keyboard" or "man -k kbd" gives no hints. I eventually find /etc/console-setup, and from that one /usr/share/doc/keyboard-configuration/. - The keyboard-configuration README mentions setupcon(1). However, that one doesn't document the file format, and has no "SEE ALSO". => It should at least "SEE ALSO" ckbcomp(1). Unusual for Debian, it omits the reference material and just says "Please look at the README file for more information" under "BASIC USAGE". There is no "FILES" section. => The manpage should contain that info, *or* it should at least give the full path to the file. I *think* the one it means is /usr/share/doc/console-setup/README.gz, but that one contains all kinds of information which is irrelevant in this situation (in addition to information which *is* relevant, provided Debian hasn't modified the behavior from the "factory default"). I have no elegant solution to this ... but please try to find some way to make it easier to find the needed information. It's normally not this hard in Debian to find stuff out from reading man pages and /usr/share/doc/. regards, Jorgen -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-powerpc Locale: LANG=sv_SE, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages console-setup depends on: ii console-terminus 4.30-2 Fixed-width fonts for fast reading ii debconf 1.5.36.1 Debian configuration management sy ii keyboard-configuration 1.68 system-wide keyboard preferences ii xkb-data 1.8-2 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu Versions of packages console-setup recommends: ii kbd 1.15.2-2 Linux console font and keytable ut Versions of packages console-setup suggests: ii locales 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: National L ii lsb-base 3.2-23.2squeeze1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip -- debconf information: * console-setup/codeset47: . Combined - Latin; Slavic Cyrillic; Greek console-setup/fontface47: Fixed console-setup/fontsize-text47: 16 console-setup/charmap47: UTF-8 console-setup/codesetcode: Uni2 console-setup/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true console-setup/fontsize-fb47: 16 console-setup/use_system_font: console-setup/fontsize: 16 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110309201550.31747.32200.reportbug@tuva
