| 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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