Changeset 81fd230 for chapter06/kbd.xml

Timestamp:

02/19/2005 10:16:42 PM (19 years ago)

Author:

Gerard Beekmans <gerard@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.0-rc1, 10.1, 10.1-rc1, 11.0, 11.0-rc1, 11.0-rc2, 11.0-rc3, 11.1, 11.1-rc1, 11.2, 11.2-rc1, 11.3, 11.3-rc1, 12.0, 12.0-rc1, 12.1, 12.1-rc1, 6.1, 6.1.1, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.5-systemd, 7.6, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.7-systemd, 7.8, 7.8-systemd, 7.9, 7.9-systemd, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, arm, bdubbs/gcc13, ml-11.0, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, s6-init, trunk, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/lfs-next, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/mips64el, xry111/pip3, xry111/rust-wip-20221008, xry111/update-glibc

Children:

3d31fc4

Parents:

2f9131f

Message:

Trunk is now identical to Testing

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@4648 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

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• chapter06/kbd.xml (modified) (5 diffs)

chapter06/kbd.xml

@@ -4 +4 @@
   %general-entities;
 ]>
-<sect1 id="ch-system-kbd" xreflabel="Kbd" role="wrap">
+<sect1 id="ch-system-kbd" role="wrap">
 <title>Kbd-&kbd-version;</title>
 <?dbhtml filename="kbd.html"?>
@@ -11 +11 @@
 
 <sect2 role="package"><title/>
+<para>The Kbd package contains key-table files and keyboard utilities.</para>
 
 <segmentedlist>
@@ -18 +19 @@
 </segmentedlist>
 
+<segmentedlist>
+<segtitle>Kbd installation depends on</segtitle>
+<seglistitem><seg>Bash, Binutils, Bison, Coreutils,
+Diffutils, Flex, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Gzip, M4, Make, and Sed</seg></seglistitem>
+</segmentedlist>
 </sect2>
 
@@ -31 +37 @@
 <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
 
-<para>Now install it:</para>
+<para>Install the package:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
@@ -39 +45 @@
 <sect2 id="contents-kbd" role="content"><title>Contents of Kbd</title>
 
-<para>See testing</para>
+<segmentedlist>
+<segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
+<seglistitem><seg>chvt, deallocvt, dumpkeys,
+fgconsole, getkeycodes, getunimap, kbd_mode, kbdrate, loadkeys, loadunimap,
+mapscrn, openvt, psfaddtable (link to psfxtable), psfgettable (link to
+psfxtable), psfstriptable (link to psfxtable), psfxtable, resizecons,
+setfont, setkeycodes, setleds, setlogcons, setmetamode, setvesablank,
+showconsolefont, showkey, unicode_start, and unicode_stop</seg></seglistitem>
+</segmentedlist>
+
+<variablelist><bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
+<?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
+
+<varlistentry id="chvt">
+<term><command>chvt</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Changes the foreground virtual terminal</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd chvt"><primary sortas="b-chvt">chvt</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="deallocvt">
+<term><command>deallocvt</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Deallocates unused virtual terminals</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd deallocvt"><primary sortas="b-deallocvt">deallocvt</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="dumpkeys">
+<term><command>dumpkeys</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Dumps the keyboard translation tables</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd dumpkeys"><primary sortas="b-dumpkeys">dumpkeys</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="fgconsole">
+<term><command>fgconsole</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Prints the number of the active virtual terminal</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd fgconsole"><primary sortas="b-fgconsole">fgconsole</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="getkeycodes">
+<term><command>getkeycodes</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Prints the kernel scancode-to-keycode mapping table</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd getkeycodes"><primary sortas="b-getkeycodes">getkeycodes</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="getunimap">
+<term><command>getunimap</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Prints the currently used unimap</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd getunimap"><primary sortas="b-getunimap">getunimap</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="kbd_mode">
+<term><command>kbd_mode</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Reports or sets the keyboard mode</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd kbd_mode"><primary sortas="b-kbd_mode">kbd_mode</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="kbdrate">
+<term><command>kbdrate</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Sets the keyboard repeat and delay rates</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd kbdrate"><primary sortas="b-kbdrate">kbdrate</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="loadkeys">
+<term><command>loadkeys</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Loads the keyboard translation tables</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd loadkeys"><primary sortas="b-loadkeys">loadkeys</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="loadunimap">
+<term><command>loadunimap</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Loads the kernel unicode-to-font mapping table</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd loadunimap"><primary sortas="b-loadunimap">loadunimap</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="mapscrn">
+<term><command>mapscrn</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>An obsolete program that used to load
+a user-defined output character mapping table into the console driver; this is
+now done by <command>setfont</command></para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd mapscrn"><primary sortas="b-mapscrn">mapscrn</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="openvt">
+<term><command>openvt</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Starts a program on a new virtual terminal (VT)</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd openvt"><primary sortas="b-openvt">openvt</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="psfaddtable">
+<term><command>psfaddtable</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>A link to <command>psfxtable</command></para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd psfaddtable"><primary sortas="b-psfaddtable">psfaddtable</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="psfgettable">
+<term><command>psfgettable</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>A link to <command>psfxtable</command></para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd psfgettable"><primary sortas="b-psfgettable">psfgettable</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="psfstriptable">
+<term><command>psfstriptable</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>A link to <command>psfxtable</command></para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd psfstriptable"><primary sortas="b-psfstriptable">psfstriptable</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="psfxtable">
+<term><command>psfxtable</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Handle Unicode character tables for console fonts</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd psfxtable"><primary sortas="b-psfxtable">psfxtable</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="resizecons">
+<term><command>resizecons</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Changes the kernel idea of the console size</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd resizecons"><primary sortas="b-resizecons">resizecons</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="setfont">
+<term><command>setfont</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Changes the Enhanced Graphic Adapter (EGA) and Video Graphics
+Array (VGA) fonts on the console</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd setfont"><primary sortas="b-setfont">setfont</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="setkeycodes">
+<term><command>setkeycodes</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Loads kernel scancode-to-keycode mapping table entries; this is
+useful if there are unusual keys on the keyboard</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd setkeycodes"><primary sortas="b-setkeycodes">setkeycodes</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="setleds">
+<term><command>setleds</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Sets the keyboard flags and Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs)</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd setleds"><primary sortas="b-setleds">setleds</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="setlogcons">
+<term><command>setlogcons</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Sends kernel messages to the console</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd setlogcons"><primary sortas="b-setlogcons">setlogcons</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="setmetamode">
+<term><command>setmetamode</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Defines the keyboard meta-key handling</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd setmetamode"><primary sortas="b-setmetamode">setmetamode</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="setvesablank">
+<term><command>setvesablank</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Lets the user adjust the built-in hardware screensaver (a blank
+screen)</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd setvesablank"><primary sortas="b-setvesablank">setvesablank</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="showconsolefont">
+<term><command>showconsolefont</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Shows the current EGA/VGA console screen font</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd showconsolefont"><primary sortas="b-showconsolefont">showconsolefont</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="showkey">
+<term><command>showkey</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Reports the scancodes, keycodes, and ASCII codes of the keys
+pressed on the keyboard</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd showkey"><primary sortas="b-showkey">showkey</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="unicode_start">
+<term><command>unicode_start</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Puts the keyboard and console in UNICODE mode. Never use it on LFS, 
+because applications are not configured to support UNICODE.</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd unicode_start"><primary sortas="b-unicode_start">unicode_start</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry id="unicode_stop">
+<term><command>unicode_stop</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<para>Reverts keyboard and console from UNICODE mode</para>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd unicode_stop"><primary sortas="b-unicode_stop">unicode_stop</primary></indexterm>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+</variablelist>
 
 </sect2>
 
 </sect1>
+