On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 10:20:23PM +0200, Nio Wiklund wrote: > On 2013-07-29 22:10, Jeremy Henty wrote: > > > > My build scripts for Linux run > > > > loadkeys -v -m /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/uk.map.gz > \ > > drivers/char/defkeymap.c > > > > before running make. I am 99% sure that I copied that command from an > > old LFS, but the current version has no such instruction. Does anyone > > know why this changed? Does running "loadkeys" do anything useful > > these days? > > > > Regards, > > > > Jeremy Henty > > > I use it when running in text screens (when there is no graphical window > manager / desktop environment. > > Best regards > Nio
In a normal LFS system, the LFS bootscripts will set up the keyboard (if you configured the console). Without that, ISTR that a system will come up (if you aren't using a login manager) with a USA keymap. I think the invocation during the kernel build was for when things went wrong (filesystem damage) or for using init=/bin/bash. I think using init=/bin/bash on a keyboard far distant from the american layout (e.g. QWERTZ or AZERTY) might be painful, but for normal recovery most people probably use a rescue CD or chroot from another install. I also have a vague memory that something in this area of the kernel might have changed - probably during the 2.6 timeframe - but I'm probably mistaken! For a GB keyboard, the US console keymap is not _too_ far off. I use my own uk variant (extra unicode, very different Compose - somewhat similar to en_GB Xorg for the accents - it's in ~/ken at lfs), and I don't remember if the default map has mappings for the pipe : I think it does, but not sure (AltGr something). # is of course on £, @ and " swap places. The \| key (to left of Z) is not operational in the US map - it's an extra key. Of course, mostly I live in Xorg and urxvt - I only really use the keyboard on my server occasionally - and *that* has an american keyboard, but with uk mappings (previous keyboard broke!) so the \| key is physically missing :) Can't check the map at the moment, I'm using my netbook which doesn't have my own keymap. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
