On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 7:34 AM, Carsten Kunze <[email protected]> wrote:
> Trond Endrestøl <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I guess we who live outside the US should take into account that PCs > > are initialised by firmware to the US keyboard layout and the 437 code > > page, courtesy of IBM, 1981. > > In 1981 I had accepted this. Now it's simply a bug and I wonder it has > not been fixed in 22 years. I'll file a bug report. > > > I'm not sure if the creators of (U)EFI has considered other keyboard > > layouts and/or code pages at boot time. > > I don't care for the BIOS here, the OS has to take care of it. It may be > ok that at the boot prompt only US keymap is set. But when the rc scripts > are running the keymap must be set correctly (as one of the first actions). > > > A bad workaround is to copy the suitable keymap from /usr/share... to > > /etc, along with /usr/sbin/kbdcontrol, and add a suitable line to one > > or either of /etc/rc.d/geli{,2}, e.g.: > > > > /etc/kbdcontrol -l /etc/german.iso.kbd > > > > kbdcontrol is linked only to libc: > > > > $ ldd `which kbdcontrol` > > /usr/sbin/kbdcontrol: > > libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x800827000) > > In my case it's simpler since I have /usr in /, but as you descripted > kbdcontrol must be in /sbin and the maps in /etc in the future. > > Carsten > You can specify your default keymap in your kernel config file. ATKBD_DFLT_KEYBD. It's possible that you might be able to set it in /boot/loader.conf, as well, but I'm not too sure of this. See atkbd(4). -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: [email protected] PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
