Changeset 342b176 for chapter06/kbd.xml

Timestamp:

02/09/2004 10:45:54 PM (20 years ago)

Author:

Alex Gronenwoud <alex@…>

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Message:

Merging configaration subsections into their corresponding sections.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@3245 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

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• chapter06/kbd.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter06/kbd.xml

@@ -36 +36 @@
 </sect2>
 
-&c6-cf-keyboard;
+<sect2><title>Configuring your keyboard</title>
+
+<para>Few things are more annoying than using Linux while a wrong keymap
+for your keyboard is loaded. If you have a standard US keyboard, however, you
+can skip this section, as the US keymap is the default as long as you don't
+change it.</para>
+
+<para>To change the default keymap, create the
+<filename class="symlink">/usr/share/kbd/keymaps/defkeymap.map.gz</filename>
+symlink by running the following command:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>ln -s path/to/keymap /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/defkeymap.map.gz</userinput></screen>
+
+<para>Of course, replace <filename>path/to/keymap</filename> with the path and
+name of your keyboard's map file. For example, if you have a Dutch keyboard,
+you would use <filename>i386/qwerty/nl.map.gz</filename>.</para>
+
+<para>Another way to set your keyboard's layout is to compile the keymap
+into the kernel. This ensures that your keyboard will always work as expected,
+even when you boot into maintenance mode (by passing `init=/bin/sh' to the
+kernel), as then the bootscript that normally sets up your keymap isn't run.</para>
+
+<para>When in <xref linkend="chapter-mixture"/> you're ready to compile the
+kernel, run the following command to patch the current default keymap into the
+source (you will have to repeat this command whenever you unpack a new
+kernel):</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>loadkeys -m /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/defkeymap.map.gz &gt; \
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;/usr/src/linux-&kernel-version;/drivers/char/defkeymap.c</userinput></screen>
+
+</sect2>
 
 &aa-kbd-shortdesc;