Opened 20 years ago
Closed 20 years ago
#841 closed defect (fixed)
Issues regarding "Configuring your keyboard" (Ch 6, Kbd-1.12) section
| Reported by: | Owned by: | Matthew Burgess | |
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| Priority: | lowest | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Book | Version: | 5.1 |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
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Description
This is really a 5.1 bug, but the entry for this release is not here. The above section says the following: "When in Chapter 8 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): loadkeys -m /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/defkeymap.map.gz > \
/usr/src/linux-2.4.25/drivers/char/defkeymap.c"
But, when compiling the kernel, anywhere it's said that you _must_ unpack your kernel at /usr/src. So either we need to change the above hard-coded path to something like <kernel sources dir>/drivers/char/defkeymap.c Or make a note on Kernel section about unpacking it to /usr/src. Also note that the kernel version on the command above is wrong, we are on 2.4.26 on LFS 5.1.
Change History (5)
comment:1 by , 20 years ago
| Status: | new → assigned |
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comment:2 by , 20 years ago
| Owner: | changed from to |
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| Status: | assigned → new |
comment:3 by , 20 years ago
comment:4 by , 20 years ago
| Version: | 5.1pre2 → 5.1 |
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comment:5 by , 20 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
I've fixed this in the 5.x branch.
The sections have been reworded and have lost this choice in 6.0 & HEAD. The wording is also very bad in chapter07/console.xml providing both forward and backward references in the same sentence. I'll reword it in due course unless someone beats me to it, but the choice of compiling a keymap into the kernel needs to be put back in IMO.