Re: [lfs-support] keyboard-1.15.3 errors on backspace with uk keymap
I've got a few files at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~ken/ in the keyboard-items and fonts directories - note that LatGrkCyr-8x16 is a 512-ish character font and ships in kbd. It comes from the sigma fonts there which are very much roll your own but do allow a 256 character font if that is what you need. ?en Thanks for the help and the link Ken; I'll have a play when I have more time. I'm still using vga=792 on the grub kernel boot line to get the right (for me) sized screen fonts. Is that still acceptable or is there an alternative? Richard -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: [lfs-support] keyboard-1.15.3 errors on backspace with uk keymap
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 11:41:38AM +, Richard Melville wrote: Thanks for the help and the link Ken; I'll have a play when I have more time. I'm still using vga=792 on the grub kernel boot line to get the right (for me) sized screen fonts. Is that still acceptable or is there an alternative? On my server I still use that. On one of my desktops I use video=1024x768. ISTR that grub moans about vga= but it still works. 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
Re: [lfs-support] keyboard-1.15.3 errors on backspace with uk keymap
On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 01:00:38PM +, Richard Melville wrote: When I use backspace in the terminal/console and then re-type I get white blocking. I'm fairly sure that I installed the patches when I built the keyboard package. Any advice? It's really annoying. Richard I suppose white blocks might be a result of a console font which cannot display the glyph it was asked for. In a unicode font, that situation ought to show an inverse question mark (black-on-white for normally white-on-black text), but many fonts cannot do that. However, that doesn't explain why the backspace isn't effective. The backspace patch only changes this for a few keymaps which still gave Backspace instead of Delete - the last time I looked (some time before 1.15.3, so something might have slipped in), all of the other keymaps shipped in the package already did this. What do you have in /etc/sysconfig/console ? ?en Ken -- thanks for the reply. I changed the font setting over the weekend and now it seems to be OK. The problem was the following: typing worked OK, and if I made a typo and wanted to delete with the backspace key, deletion worked OK, however, when I began to type again that's when I saw the white blocking. I know very little about fonts, keymaps, unicode, etc. What I would like to do is set up a unicode environment but I'm not sure how to go about it, although I'll probably only be using an accented e, an umlaut/diaeresis, and a euro symbol in addition to a uk keymap. The following are the console parameters of /etc/sysconfig/rc.site (I'm not using /etc/sysconfig/console) and I've left my original font setting in, but commented out:- # Console parameters UNICODE=0 KEYMAP=uk #KEYMAP_CORRECTIONS=euro2 #FONT=default8x16 FONT=lat1-16 -m 8859-1 #LEGACY_CHARSET= Thanks for your help. Richard -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: [lfs-support] keyboard-1.15.3 errors on backspace with uk keymap
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 10:56:28AM +, Richard Melville wrote: Ken -- thanks for the reply. I changed the font setting over the weekend and now it seems to be OK. The problem was the following: typing worked OK, and if I made a typo and wanted to delete with the backspace key, deletion worked OK, however, when I began to type again that's when I saw the white blocking. I know very little about fonts, keymaps, unicode, etc. These days, few people know much about screen fonts and keymaps. What I would like to do is set up a unicode environment but I'm not sure how to go about it, although I'll probably only be using an accented e, an umlaut/diaeresis, and a euro symbol in addition to a uk keymap. The following are the console parameters of /etc/sysconfig/rc.site (I'm not using /etc/sysconfig/console) and I've left my original font setting in, but commented out:- # Console parameters UNICODE=0 You seem to have have turned unicode off. I can't really comment on how the other settings play in a legacy environment. When you set it to '1' you might need to alter your profile to ensure you are using a UTF-8 version of LC_ALL or whatever (en_GB.UTF-8 for most people in the UK). KEYMAP=uk I used to use that - worked ok, but I wanted more :) #KEYMAP_CORRECTIONS=euro2 #FONT=default8x16 FONT=lat1-16 -m 8859-1 Those are both 256 character fonts, I would say that the coverage of lat1-16 is slightly better (in a unicode environment). If you don't need the bright colours, you might prefer a 512 character font. I've got a few files at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~ken/ in the keyboard-items and fonts directories - note that LatGrkCyr-8x16 is a 512-ish character font and ships in kbd. It comes from the sigma fonts there which are very much roll your own but do allow a 256 character font if that is what you need. 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
[lfs-support] keyboard-1.15.3 errors on backspace with uk keymap
When I use backspace in the terminal/console and then re-type I get white blocking. I'm fairly sure that I installed the patches when I built the keyboard package. Any advice? It's really annoying. Richard -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
