Am Donnerstag, den 28.06.2012, 07:54 +0200 schrieb Tollef Fog Heen:
> ]] Lennart Poettering 
> 
> > On Wed, 27.06.12 21:59, Tollef Fog Heen (tfh...@err.no) wrote:

> > > ]] Lennart Poettering 
> > > 
> > > > Hmm, the other distributions have an #ifdef TARGET_FOOBAR section in
> > > > vconsole-setup for that. Debian currently doesn't. I'd be willing to add
> > > > a patch that parses the old DEbian configuration files, to implement the
> > > > fallback.
> > > 
> > > We use the X11 keyboard definitions.  Are you sure you want to
> > > completely reimplement console-setup? :-)
> > 
> > Ah, hmm. I heard of that. Can you explain how precisely that works? Do
> > you actually use the same keybaord definitions, i.e. have converted them
> > to console definitions? Or do you just share the same naming namespace?
> 
> console-setup reads the xkb definitions and downsamples them to
> something the console can understand.  IIRC, it doesn't work for the
> most complex keymaps and the cases where you have multiple keymaps
> defined which you can switch between, but it works well in the simple
> case of one language.  (IIRC, this is due to kernel limitations in how
> many keys can be defined and such.  Also, I don't think the kernel
> understands Compose.)
> 
> > Any docs available for this?
> 
> There might be some in
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/console-setup/console-setup_1.78.tar.gz

You can also clone the Git repository.

        $ debcheckout -d console-setup
        type    git
        url     git://git.debian.org/d-i/console-setup.git
        top-bases       
        topgit  no


Thanks,

Paul

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