#2062: console-data-1.02-2 --------------------+------------------------------------------------------- Reporter: eloi | Owner: [email protected] Type: task | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.0 Component: Book | Version: 6.2 Severity: normal | Resolution: Keywords: | --------------------+------------------------------------------------------- Comment (by [EMAIL PROTECTED]):
If we use console-data, we have to throw out kbd. For me, kbd works a lot better than console-data . Specifically, on my own keymap I can add the necessary inclusions to let me key characters by their unicode value (e.g. 161 for 's' with caron), and I can use dead keys (e.g. AltGr+';' for dead_acute) to create the latin1 diacriticals at the console. Somebody asked me about the files I was including, because they weren't in ubuntu, so I tried to make my version work on debian etch which I currently have on a ppc box. No dice, the extras got garbled to invalid unicode, although entry-by-number worked for straight ascii. That was after I removed the unicode for low-99 quotes because console-data translated it to a sensible symbol name, and then claimed not to recognise it. So, for me kbd is the better package. But, I assume the keymaps are either public domain, BSD, or GPL (if it isn't obvious, contact the author of the map) - find the corresponding include files (or create them), rename the .kmap to .map, test it, and when it works, give us a patch please. Or just create your own set of overrides to pull in the standard keyboard for your country, and then fix up what is different on the intel mac. That is probably a simpler approach. Consult 'man showkey'. I don't know what is used to boot linux on intel macs, but I'm fairly sure that it isn't grub. If I'm right, you could write a hint to explain how to boot LFS on intel macs. -- Ticket URL: <http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/2062#comment:3> LFS Trac <http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/> Linux From Scratch: Your Distro, Your Rules. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-book FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
