1 | <sect1 id="ch-system-kbd" xreflabel="Kbd">
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2 | <title>Installing Kbd-&kbd-version;</title>
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3 | <?dbhtml filename="kbd.html" dir="chapter06"?>
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4 |
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5 | <para>The Kbd package contains keytable files and keyboard utilities.</para>
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6 |
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7 | <screen>&buildtime; &kbd-time;
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8 | &diskspace; &kbd-compsize;</screen>
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9 |
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10 | &aa-kbd-down;
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11 | &aa-kbd-dep;
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12 |
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13 | <sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2>
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14 |
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15 | <sect2>
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16 | <title>Installation of Kbd</title>
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17 |
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18 | <para>By default some of Kbd's utilities (<command>setlogcons</command>,
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19 | <command>setvesablank</command> and <command>getunimap</command>) are
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20 | not installed. First enable the compilation of these utilities:</para>
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21 |
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22 | <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&kbd-patch;</userinput></screen>
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23 |
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24 | <para>Now prepare Kbd for compilation:</para>
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25 |
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26 | <screen><userinput>./configure</userinput></screen>
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27 |
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28 | <para>Compile the package:</para>
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29 |
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30 | <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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31 |
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32 | <para>And install it:</para>
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33 |
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34 | <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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35 |
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36 | </sect2>
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37 |
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38 | <sect2><title>Configuring your keyboard</title>
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39 |
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40 | <para>Few things are more annoying than using Linux while a wrong keymap
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41 | for your keyboard is loaded. If you have a standard US keyboard, however, you
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42 | can skip this section, as the US keymap is the default as long as you don't
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43 | change it.</para>
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44 |
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45 | <para>To change the default keymap, create the
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46 | <filename class="symlink">/usr/share/kbd/keymaps/defkeymap.map.gz</filename>
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47 | symlink by running the following command:</para>
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48 |
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49 | <screen><userinput>ln -s path/to/keymap /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/defkeymap.map.gz</userinput></screen>
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50 |
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51 | <para>Of course, replace <filename>path/to/keymap</filename> with the path and
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52 | name of your keyboard's map file. For example, if you have a Dutch keyboard,
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53 | you would use <filename>i386/qwerty/nl.map.gz</filename>.</para>
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54 |
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55 | <para>Another way to set your keyboard's layout is to compile the keymap
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56 | into the kernel. This ensures that your keyboard will always work as expected,
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57 | even when you boot into maintenance mode (by passing `init=/bin/sh' to the
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58 | kernel), as then the bootscript that normally sets up your keymap isn't run.</para>
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59 |
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60 | <para>When in <xref linkend="chapter-mixture"/> you're ready to compile the
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61 | kernel, run the following command to patch the current default keymap into the
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62 | source (you will have to repeat this command whenever you unpack a new
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63 | kernel):</para>
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64 |
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65 | <screen><userinput>loadkeys -m /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/defkeymap.map.gz > \
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66 | /usr/src/linux-&kernel-version;/drivers/char/defkeymap.c</userinput></screen>
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67 |
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68 | </sect2>
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69 |
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70 | &aa-kbd-shortdesc;
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71 | &aa-kbd-desc;
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72 |
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73 | </sect1>
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74 |
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