At 26 Jun 04 12:33:12 GMT, Christian Perrier wrote: > As a consequence, users not aware of this will just be unable to login > as soon as their chosen password contains letters which are mapped > differently on a FR and a US keyboard (and there are a *lot*). > > This is obviously very bad and I sometimes feel this should be RC...
Seconded :-) > As a way to circumvent this, I propose that we pre-seed > xserver-xfree86 settings about keyboard, mostly > "xserver-xfree86/config/inputdevice/keyboard/model" and > "xserver-xfree86/config/inputdevice/keyboard/layout" with appropriate > values, depending on the chosen keyboard layout during the kbd-chooser > step in d-i. > > Example > > debconf-get console-keymaps-at/keymap > > case $RET in > fr-latin9) > debconf-set xserver-xfree86/config/inputdevice/keyboard/model "pc105" > debconf-set xserver-xfree86/config/inputdevice/keyboard/layout "fr" > ;; Interesting. (Maybe you need to add register debian-installer/dummy xserver-xfree86/config/inputdevice/keyboard/model and layout before running.) > Instead of a giant "case" loop, some other system with a basic mapping > in a file could of course be used. Right. Which package is best for include this configuration? kbd-chooser fits subject, but it's bad to eat floppy space any more. How about treat this by prebaseconfig or base-config? Thanks, -- Kenshi Muto [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
