On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 11:09:20AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have just managed to install The Hurd on my PC and I have a slight > problem with my keyboard. We use a UK keyboard and the default one is a US > keyboard. > I have installed the console-common and console-data packages, so I have > the install-keymaps executable and the uk.kmap.gz file. Unfortunately, we I > run "install-keymap /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/uk.kmaps.gz", it throws > the following error to me: > "Warning: no console utilities installed yet. differing keymap setting > until either console-tools or kbd is installed."
console-tools is linux specific software. Although it makes sense to reuse their data files and share them, there is currently no application to make use of them on the Hurd. I hackled together a simple replacement a long time ago, which you can find in ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/contrib/marcus/keymap.tar.gz > Secondly, I have read a few mail on that list about the drivers in the > GNUmach kernel. I think one of the interests of The Hurd is its modularity. > The following idea might have been already thought of or considered, so > please don't shoot me straight away: would it be possible to implement each > single driver as a server in kernel space? One of the advantage of The Hurd > over monolithic kernel is the implementation of functionality like > filesystem as a server is user-space, and I was wondering if it would be > possible to reuse that philosophy for the kernel drivers. Any thought? No, the Hurd servers are implemented entirely differently from monolithical kernel filesystems. BTW, kernels like linux already have a virtual file system layer where filesystems plugin. But you have to look at a different place to find out how this works. > Thirdly, I walked through the mailing list last night and I still can't > understand which kernel I should use: it seems that The Hurd is fairly easy > to install using GNUmach but that all the development is happening on > OSKit-mach. What is the exact status? What should I use if I want to do > some development? You will only find GNU Machinthe bianry archive. If you want to do kernel hacking, use oskit-mach. Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de
