Re: [blfs-support] Auto-detect keyboard layout

2014-07-14 Thread Alexey Orishko
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 3:37 AM, Ken Moffat zarniwh...@ntlworld.com wrote: Really ? I haven't installed a distro for about 3 years - that was ubuntu, and from what I remember I had to specify the keymap (which is how I come to be using a horrible en_gb variant with dead keys on the ttys of

[blfs-support] Auto-detect keyboard layout

2014-07-13 Thread Alexey Orishko
Hi all, I build a system with us keymap in /etc/console. Is there a way to auto-detect a keyboard layout (us, spanish, german,etc) in a shell script in order to invoke loadkeys during boot? Regards, Alexey -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ:

Re: [blfs-support] Auto-detect keyboard layout

2014-07-13 Thread Alexey Orishko
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 12:25 AM, Ken Moffat zarniwh...@ntlworld.com wrote: I very much doubt it - you *might* be able to detect how many keys exist, and I guess that the options within full (e)udev or systemd will probably notice the extra keys (sleep, mail, etc) in certain keyboards -

Re: [blfs-support] Auto-detect keyboard layout

2014-07-13 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 12:37:05AM +0200, Alexey Orishko wrote: On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 12:25 AM, Ken Moffat zarniwh...@ntlworld.com wrote: I very much doubt it - you *might* be able to detect how many keys exist, and I guess that the options within full (e)udev or systemd will probably