Re: Switching g-i from DirectFB to X11 -- console-setup

2010-03-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 27 February 2010, Anton Zinoviev wrote: On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 09:16:40PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: It'd be quite weird to have a keyboard layout configured in d-i, and ignored when switching VTs to get to a console, IMO... Unfortunately this is inevitable. 'loadkeys' and

Re: Switching g-i from DirectFB to X11 -- console-setup

2010-03-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Frans Pop, le Mon 15 Mar 2010 11:41:17 +0100, a écrit : On Saturday 27 February 2010, Anton Zinoviev wrote: On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 09:16:40PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: It'd be quite weird to have a keyboard layout configured in d-i, and ignored when switching VTs to get to a console,

Re: Switching g-i from DirectFB to X11 -- console-setup

2010-03-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 27 February 2010, Anton Zinoviev wrote: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:22:54AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: Besides that it offers choices for keymaps that are not even available This does happen. At least, with only console-setup-pc-ekmap loaded I see Sun dead keys listed for Dutch (hmmm,

Re: Switching g-i from DirectFB to X11 -- console-setup

2010-03-15 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 05:34:42PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: This does happen. At least, with only console-setup-pc-ekmap loaded I see Sun dead keys listed for Dutch (hmmm, but no Sun keymaps for USA) and I also see Macintosh a lot (which is probably necessary). This is not a bug. It is

Re: Switching g-i from DirectFB to X11 -- console-setup

2010-02-27 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:49:42AM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: if xkb-data is available then these keymaps can be generated at runtime by ckbcomp/setupcon (although I'm not sure ckbcomp-mini can do it; Anton?). No, ckbcomp-mini can not do this and ckbcomp would require Perl and a new

Re: Switching g-i from DirectFB to X11 -- console-setup

2010-02-27 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 21:12:45 +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:49:42AM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: if xkb-data is available then these keymaps can be generated at runtime by ckbcomp/setupcon (although I'm not sure ckbcomp-mini can do it; Anton?). No,

Re: Switching g-i from DirectFB to X11 -- console-setup

2010-02-27 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 09:16:40PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: It'd be quite weird to have a keyboard layout configured in d-i, and ignored when switching VTs to get to a console, IMO... Unfortunately this is inevitable. 'loadkeys' and 'setfont' do not work when X is active. A solution

Re: Switching g-i from DirectFB to X11 -- console-setup

2010-02-27 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 22:25:46 +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 09:16:40PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: It'd be quite weird to have a keyboard layout configured in d-i, and ignored when switching VTs to get to a console, IMO... Unfortunately this is inevitable.

Re: Switching g-i from DirectFB to X11 -- console-setup

2010-02-27 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 09:32:35PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: oh, indeed, that sucks. Although we could run loadkeys when the user presses enter to get a shell on vt2/3 I suppose? If c-s-udeb is configured 'setupcon' with no parameters will take care to run loadkeys and even to load a

Re: Switching g-i from DirectFB to X11 -- console-setup

2010-02-26 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 08 February 2010, Cyril Brulebois wrote: - Maybe think of switching over from kbd-chooser to console-setup. It should work (almost) out of the box for X11 (that was at least OK with my very first image, before cleaning up my patches), while kbd-chooser would mean patching

Re: Switching g-i from DirectFB to X11 -- console-setup

2010-02-26 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:22:54 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: I was somewhat surprised to see x11-xkb-utils-udeb and especially the very large xkb-data-udeb. Isn't there an overlap with the console-setup udebs? If there is, it would be good to get rid of that overlap. There is. The choices