On Mon, 29 Jan 2001 at 11:17:17 +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > Thanks for getting back to me! > > > Try 'setxkbmap'. > > I looked it up and itr seems to deal with X11 only? That correct? I can > switch the X keyboard easily.
Ah, right. I misunderstood you (thinking that you wanted a way to change the keymap on the fly rather than having to edit XF86Config and restart X). > Linux also botts initially in English. > It's when the boot is finished that the command prompt keyboard ia > French. That's what needs changing? Wil xkbsel do that? > > I looked in my files and found a reference to kbdconfig? Of any use? kbdconfig is what you want, I think. Just run it and you'll get a series of menus where you can select your keymap, and optionally set the boot-time default as well. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]