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[d781ffb] | 7 |
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[7d096f3] | 8 | <sect1 id="ch-scripts-console">
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[d781ffb] | 9 | <?dbhtml filename="console.html"?>
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| 10 |
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| 11 | <title>Configuring the Linux Console</title>
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| 12 |
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| 13 | <indexterm zone="ch-scripts-console">
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| 14 | <primary sortas="d-console">console</primary>
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| 15 | <secondary>configuring</secondary>
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| 16 | </indexterm>
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| 17 |
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| 18 | <para>This section discusses how to configure the <command>console</command>
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[6b13ebc6] | 19 | bootscript that sets up the keyboard map, console font and console kernel log
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| 20 | level. If non-ASCII characters (e.g., the copyright sign, the British pound
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| 21 | sign and Euro symbol) will not be used and the keyboard is a U.S. one, much
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[2ca8941] | 22 | of this section can be skipped. Without the configuration file, (or
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[6b13ebc6] | 23 | equivalent settings in <filename>rc.site</filename>), the
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| 24 | <command>console</command> bootscript will do nothing.</para>
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| 25 |
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[c729bc9] | 26 | <sect2 id="ch-scripts-sysv-console">
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[82d38ac1] | 27 | <title>System V</title>
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[c729bc9] | 28 |
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[6b13ebc6] | 29 | <para>The <command>console</command> script reads the
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| 30 | <filename>/etc/sysconfig/console</filename> file for configuration
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| 31 | information. Decide which keymap and screen font will be used. Various
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| 32 | language-specific HOWTOs can also help with this, see <ulink
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[fa21b3d] | 33 | url="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/other-lang.html"/>. If still in
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[f15f341] | 34 | doubt, look in the <filename class="directory">/usr/share/keymaps</filename>
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| 35 | and <filename class="directory">/usr/share/consolefonts</filename> directories
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[6b13ebc6] | 36 | for valid keymaps and screen fonts. Read <filename>loadkeys(1)</filename> and
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| 37 | <filename>setfont(8)</filename> manual pages to determine the correct
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| 38 | arguments for these programs.</para>
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[fa21b3d] | 39 |
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| 40 | <para>The <filename>/etc/sysconfig/console</filename> file should contain lines
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| 41 | of the form: VARIABLE="value". The following variables are recognized:</para>
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| 42 |
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| 43 | <variablelist>
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| 44 |
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[479f92f] | 45 | <varlistentry>
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| 46 | <term>LOGLEVEL</term>
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| 47 | <listitem>
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| 48 | <para>This variable specifies the log level for kernel messages sent
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| 49 | to the console as set by <command>dmesg</command>. Valid levels are
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| 50 | from "1" (no messages) to "8". The default level is "7".</para>
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| 51 | </listitem>
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| 52 | </varlistentry>
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| 53 |
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[fa21b3d] | 54 | <varlistentry>
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| 55 | <term>KEYMAP</term>
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| 56 | <listitem>
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| 57 | <para>This variable specifies the arguments for the
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| 58 | <command>loadkeys</command> program, typically, the name of keymap
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| 59 | to load, e.g., <quote>es</quote>. If this variable is not set, the
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[a91be49] | 60 | bootscript will not run the <command>loadkeys</command> program,
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| 61 | and the default kernel keymap will be used.</para>
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[fa21b3d] | 62 | </listitem>
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| 63 | </varlistentry>
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| 64 |
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| 65 | <varlistentry>
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| 66 | <term>KEYMAP_CORRECTIONS</term>
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| 67 | <listitem>
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| 68 | <para>This (rarely used) variable
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| 69 | specifies the arguments for the second call to the
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| 70 | <command>loadkeys</command> program. This is useful if the stock keymap
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| 71 | is not completely satisfactory and a small adjustment has to be made. E.g.,
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| 72 | to include the Euro sign into a keymap that normally doesn't have it,
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| 73 | set this variable to <quote>euro2</quote>.</para>
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| 74 | </listitem>
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| 75 | </varlistentry>
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| 76 |
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| 77 | <varlistentry>
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| 78 | <term>FONT</term>
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| 79 | <listitem>
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| 80 | <para>This variable specifies the arguments for the
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| 81 | <command>setfont</command> program. Typically, this includes the font
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| 82 | name, <quote>-m</quote>, and the name of the application character
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[a91be49] | 83 | map to load. E.g., in order to load the <quote>lat1-16</quote> font
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| 84 | together with the <quote>8859-1</quote> application character map
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[2ca8941] | 85 | (as it is appropriate in the USA),
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[7d6c9a6] | 86 | <!-- because of the copyright sign -->
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[a91be49] | 87 | set this variable to <quote>lat1-16 -m 8859-1</quote>.
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[7d6c9a6] | 88 | In UTF-8 mode, the kernel uses the application character map for
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| 89 | conversion of composed 8-bit key codes in the keymap to UTF-8, and thus
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| 90 | the argument of the "-m" parameter should be set to the encoding of the
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| 91 | composed key codes in the keymap.</para>
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| 92 |
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[fa21b3d] | 93 | </listitem>
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| 94 | </varlistentry>
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| 95 |
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| 96 | <varlistentry>
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| 97 | <term>UNICODE</term>
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| 98 | <listitem>
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| 99 | <para>Set this variable to <quote>1</quote>, <quote>yes</quote> or
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[a91be49] | 100 | <quote>true</quote> in order to put the
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[fa21b3d] | 101 | console into UTF-8 mode. This is useful in UTF-8 based locales and
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| 102 | harmful otherwise.</para>
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| 103 | </listitem>
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| 104 | </varlistentry>
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| 105 |
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| 106 | <varlistentry>
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| 107 | <term>LEGACY_CHARSET</term>
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| 108 | <listitem>
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| 109 | <para>For many keyboard layouts, there is no stock Unicode keymap in
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| 110 | the Kbd package. The <command>console</command> bootscript will
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| 111 | convert an available keymap to UTF-8 on the fly if this variable is
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[a91be49] | 112 | set to the encoding of the available non-UTF-8 keymap.</para>
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[fa21b3d] | 113 | </listitem>
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| 114 | </varlistentry>
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| 115 |
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| 116 | </variablelist>
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| 117 |
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| 118 | <para>Some examples:</para>
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| 119 |
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| 120 | <itemizedlist>
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| 121 |
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| 122 | <listitem>
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| 123 | <para>For a non-Unicode setup, only the KEYMAP and FONT variables are
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| 124 | generally needed. E.g., for a Polish setup, one would use:</para>
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| 125 |
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| 126 | <screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat > /etc/sysconfig/console << "EOF"
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| 127 | <literal># Begin /etc/sysconfig/console
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| 128 |
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| 129 | KEYMAP="pl2"
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| 130 | FONT="lat2a-16 -m 8859-2"
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| 131 |
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| 132 | # End /etc/sysconfig/console</literal>
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[f67f5cf] | 133 | EOF</userinput></screen>
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[fa21b3d] | 134 | </listitem>
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[b32e803] | 135 |
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[fa21b3d] | 136 | <listitem>
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| 137 | <para>As mentioned above, it is sometimes necessary to adjust a
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| 138 | stock keymap slightly. The following example adds the Euro symbol to the
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| 139 | German keymap:</para>
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[81fd230] | 140 |
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[fa21b3d] | 141 | <screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat > /etc/sysconfig/console << "EOF"
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| 142 | <literal># Begin /etc/sysconfig/console
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| 143 |
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| 144 | KEYMAP="de-latin1"
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| 145 | KEYMAP_CORRECTIONS="euro2"
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| 146 | FONT="lat0-16 -m 8859-15"
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| 147 |
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| 148 | # End /etc/sysconfig/console</literal>
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[81fd230] | 149 | EOF</userinput></screen>
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[fa21b3d] | 150 | </listitem>
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[81fd230] | 151 |
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[fa21b3d] | 152 | <listitem>
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[49451499] | 153 | <para>The following is a Unicode-enabled example for Bulgarian, where a
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| 154 | stock UTF-8 keymap exists:</para>
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[5536f74] | 155 |
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[fa21b3d] | 156 | <screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat > /etc/sysconfig/console << "EOF"
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| 157 | <literal># Begin /etc/sysconfig/console
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| 158 |
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| 159 | UNICODE="1"
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| 160 | KEYMAP="bg_bds-utf8"
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| 161 | FONT="LatArCyrHeb-16"
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| 162 |
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| 163 | # End /etc/sysconfig/console</literal>
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| 164 | EOF</userinput></screen>
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| 165 | </listitem>
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| 166 |
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| 167 | <listitem>
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| 168 | <para>Due to the use of a 512-glyph LatArCyrHeb-16 font in the previous
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| 169 | example, bright colors are no longer available on the Linux console unless
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| 170 | a framebuffer is used. If one wants to have bright colors without
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| 171 | framebuffer and can live without characters not belonging to his language,
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| 172 | it is still possible to use a language-specific 256-glyph font, as
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[f19e766] | 173 | illustrated below:</para>
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[81fd230] | 174 |
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[fa21b3d] | 175 | <screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat > /etc/sysconfig/console << "EOF"
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| 176 | <literal># Begin /etc/sysconfig/console
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| 177 |
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| 178 | UNICODE="1"
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| 179 | KEYMAP="bg_bds-utf8"
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| 180 | FONT="cyr-sun16"
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| 181 |
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| 182 | # End /etc/sysconfig/console</literal>
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[f67f5cf] | 183 | EOF</userinput></screen>
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[fa21b3d] | 184 | </listitem>
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| 185 |
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| 186 | <listitem>
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[7d6c9a6] | 187 | <para>The following example illustrates keymap autoconversion from
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| 188 | ISO-8859-15 to UTF-8 and enabling dead keys in Unicode mode:</para>
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[fa21b3d] | 189 |
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| 190 | <screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat > /etc/sysconfig/console << "EOF"
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| 191 | <literal># Begin /etc/sysconfig/console
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[b32e803] | 192 |
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[fa21b3d] | 193 | UNICODE="1"
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[7d6c9a6] | 194 | KEYMAP="de-latin1"
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| 195 | KEYMAP_CORRECTIONS="euro2"
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| 196 | LEGACY_CHARSET="iso-8859-15"
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| 197 | FONT="LatArCyrHeb-16 -m 8859-15"
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[b32e803] | 198 |
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[fa21b3d] | 199 | # End /etc/sysconfig/console</literal>
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[f67f5cf] | 200 | EOF</userinput></screen>
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[fa21b3d] | 201 | </listitem>
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[b32e803] | 202 |
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[49451499] | 203 | <listitem>
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| 204 | <para>Some keymaps have dead keys (i.e., keys that don't produce a
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| 205 | character by themselves, but put an accent on the character produced
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| 206 | by the next key) or define composition rules (such as: <quote>press
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| 207 | Ctrl+. A E to get Æ</quote> in the default keymap).
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[7d6c9a6] | 208 | Linux-&linux-version; interprets dead keys and composition rules in the
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| 209 | keymap correctly only when the source characters to be composed together
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| 210 | are not multibyte. This deficiency doesn't affect keymaps for European
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| 211 | languages, because there accents are added to unaccented ASCII
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| 212 | characters, or two ASCII characters are composed together. However, in
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| 213 | UTF-8 mode it is a problem, e.g., for the Greek language, where one
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[53eeda09] | 214 | sometimes needs to put an accent on the letter <quote>alpha</quote>.
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[7d6c9a6] | 215 | The solution is either to avoid the use of UTF-8, or to install the
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| 216 | X window system that doesn't have this limitation in its input
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| 217 | handling.</para>
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[49451499] | 218 | </listitem>
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| 219 |
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[fa21b3d] | 220 | <listitem>
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| 221 | <para>For Chinese, Japanese, Korean and some other languages, the Linux
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| 222 | console cannot be configured to display the needed characters. Users
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| 223 | who need such languages should install the X Window System, fonts that
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| 224 | cover the necessary character ranges, and the proper input method (e.g.,
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| 225 | SCIM, it supports a wide variety of languages).</para>
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| 226 | </listitem>
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| 227 |
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| 228 | </itemizedlist>
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| 229 |
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| 230 | <!-- Added because folks keep posting their console file with X questions
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| 231 | to blfs-support list -->
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| 232 | <note>
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[c729bc9] | 233 | <para>The <filename>/etc/sysconfig/console</filename> file only controls
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| 234 | the Linux text console localization. It has nothing to do with setting
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| 235 | the proper keyboard layout and terminal fonts in the X Window System, with
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| 236 | ssh sessions or with a serial console. In such situations, limitations
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| 237 | mentioned in the last two list items above do not apply.</para>
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[fa21b3d] | 238 | </note>
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[81fd230] | 239 |
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[c729bc9] | 240 | </sect2>
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| 241 |
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| 242 | <sect2 id="ch-scripts-systemd-console">
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| 243 | <title>Systemd</title>
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| 244 |
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| 245 | <indexterm zone="ch-scripts-systemd-console">
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| 246 | <primary sortas="d-console">systemd console</primary>
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| 247 | <secondary>configuring</secondary>
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| 248 | </indexterm>
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| 249 |
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| 250 | <para>This section discusses how to configure the
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| 251 | <command>systemd-vconsole-setup</command> system service, which configures
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| 252 | the virtual console font and console keymap.</para>
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| 253 |
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| 254 | <para>The <command>systemd-vconsole-setup</command> service reads the
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| 255 | <filename>/etc/vconsole.conf</filename> file for configuration
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| 256 | information. Decide which keymap and screen font will be used. Various
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| 257 | language-specific HOWTOs can also help with this, see <ulink
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| 258 | url="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/other-lang.html"/>.
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| 259 | Examine <command>localectl list-keymaps</command> output for a list of
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| 260 | valid console keymaps. Look in
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| 261 | <filename class="directory">/usr/share/consolefonts</filename>
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| 262 | directory for valid screen fonts.</para>
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| 263 |
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| 264 | <para>The <filename>/etc/vconsole.conf</filename> file should contain lines
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| 265 | of the form: VARIABLE="value". The following variables are recognized:</para>
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| 266 |
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| 267 | <variablelist>
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| 268 |
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| 269 | <varlistentry>
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| 270 | <term>KEYMAP</term>
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| 271 | <listitem>
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| 272 | <para>This variable specifies the key mapping table for the keyboard. If
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| 273 | unset, it defaults to <literal>us</literal>.</para>
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| 274 | </listitem>
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| 275 | </varlistentry>
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| 276 |
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| 277 | <varlistentry>
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| 278 | <term>KEYMAP_TOGGLE</term>
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| 279 | <listitem>
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| 280 | <para>This variable can be used to configure a second toggle keymap and
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| 281 | is unset by default.</para>
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| 282 | </listitem>
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| 283 | </varlistentry>
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| 284 |
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| 285 | <varlistentry>
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| 286 | <term>FONT</term>
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| 287 | <listitem>
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| 288 | <para>This variable specifies the font used by the virtual
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| 289 | console.</para>
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| 290 | </listitem>
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| 291 | </varlistentry>
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| 292 | <varlistentry>
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| 293 | <term>FONT_MAP</term>
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| 294 | <listitem>
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| 295 | <para>This variable specifies the console map to be used.</para>
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| 296 | </listitem>
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| 297 | </varlistentry>
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| 298 |
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| 299 | <varlistentry>
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| 300 | <term>FONT_UNIMAP</term>
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| 301 | <listitem>
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[edbeeb5] | 302 | <para>This variable specifies the Unicode font map.</para>
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[c729bc9] | 303 | </listitem>
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| 304 | </varlistentry>
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| 305 |
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| 306 | </variablelist>
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| 307 |
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| 308 | <para>An example for a German keyboard and console is given below:</para>
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| 309 |
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| 310 | <screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat > /etc/vconsole.conf << "EOF"
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| 311 | <literal>KEYMAP=de-latin1
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| 312 | FONT=Lat2-Terminus16</literal>
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| 313 | EOF</userinput></screen>
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| 314 |
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| 315 | <para>You can change KEYMAP value at runtime by using the
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| 316 | <command>localectl</command> utility:</para>
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| 317 |
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| 318 | <screen role="nodump"><userinput>localectl set-keymap MAP</userinput></screen>
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| 319 |
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| 320 | <note><para>Please note that <command>localectl</command> command can
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| 321 | be used only on a system booted with Systemd.</para></note>
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| 322 |
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| 323 | </sect2>
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| 324 |
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[1050066] | 325 | </sect1>
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