Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-11-22

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

> On Nov 25, 2019, at 9:32 PM, Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu> wrote:
> 
> There is a remaining problem: by default, keyboard is configured to use
> old keymap, macintosh_old, that is for old kernel (older than 2.4, not
> for old macintosh) and console is unusable like this with 5.3.0 kernel:
> 
>  # cat /etc/default/keyboard
>  # KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION FILE
> 
>  # Consult the keyboard(5) manual page.
> 
>  XKBMODEL="macintosh_old"
>  XKBLAYOUT="us"
>  XKBVARIANT=""
>  XKBOPTIONS=""
> 
>  BACKSPACE="guess"
> 
> A correct configuration should use XKBMODEL="macintosh".
> 
> Is it possible to update the configuration set by default by the installer?

That’s most likely the console-setup package that needs to be patched, but I have to verify that.

Adrian