On 05/24/2014 05:17 PM, Ken Moffat wrote:
On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 04:18:58PM +0200, ALZ (phyglos.org) wrote:
On 05/24/2014 03:58 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
If you can put a few echo statements in /etc/init.d/console and see
where there is a problem, I can update the script.
-- Bruce
Thanks Bruce. After some troubleshooting I've realized that in LFS this two
commands are not equivalent:
#loadkeys es
#loadkeys /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/es
The former is what LFS bootscripts end executing from /etc/sysconfig/console
(from KEYMAP=es) while the later is the right command to be run to solve
this issue.
So, the way to set /etc/sysconfig/console in order to work with spanish
accented vowels in LFS 7.5 + SVN right now is:
# Begin /etc/sysconfig/console
KEYMAP="/usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/es"
KEYMAP_CORRECTIONS="euro2"
FONT="lat0-16 -m 8859-15"
# End /etc/sysconfig/console
I don't know the root cause of this behavior. Either Viktor and I do have a
rare kernel option set when compiling the kernel and "#loadkeys es" invokes
some default kernel table (just speculating here), or kbd-2.0.1 needs now
the full path to be set in LFS rc.d scripts.
The Changelog inside kbd sources says that at kdb-1.5.3 an enviroment
variable LOADKEYS_KEYMAP_PATH is introduced. In fact, when doing
#export LOADKEYS_KEYMAP_PATH=/usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty
#loadkeys es
the expected behavior is now obtained.
If LFS scripts are to be updated after kbd-1.5.3+ is now beyond my LFS
knowledge.
ALZ.
I find that strange, but I cannot dispute those results on your
machines. On my own, things are different - despite the comment in
the console script "Native English speakers probably don't have
/etc/sysconfig/console at all" I do have one of these, both for my
own font and for my own keymap (uk-utf : uk with a lot of extras
added). And my map does get loaded.
At the moment I'm timing a xulrunner build in X on 7.5, so I went
to a tty on this machine and tried (as root) "loadkeys es" - got a
spanish keymap. I didn't try changing the font (mine already covers
all Spanish glyphs, except a couple only used in Asturian). I also
did not try setting the euro2 override.
Took me a while to find where '-' had moved to, then I typed
"loadkeys uk-utf" - it failed, I got an error message (something
about hte file's content and EOL) despite loadkeys uk-utf working
during bootup. For now, 'loadkeys uk' worked.
I then booted another machine, with a recent copy of LFS-svn, and
confirmed that it was definitely using my uk-utf map after booting.
My tests have all been on x86_64, with a framebuffer console.
ĸen
Seems to me that you were fortunate and no new keymaps (like
olpc/es.map.gz) were introduced for UK keyboards.
Your own uk-utf file is a good protection against future collisions :-)
Maybe some Portuguese LFS user has found that before. In olpc/ directory
there are only two keymaps for ES and PT keyboards.
ALZ.
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