Re: keyboard autodetection
On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 10:50, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org> writes:
> > hinderance is the fact that I'm not allowed to read data from the
> > keyboard when using DebConf, which is why I have no real idea how to
> > implement it in a compatible way for d-i, short of adding a new template
> > type "single-keycode" (which would probably work on the console, but
> > require additional work if it is supposed to work together with bterm,
> > which the installer currently uses, or X, which the installer might use
> > in the future).
> >
> > Simon
>
> Good luck with this. I'm sure it would be welcome by many.
Seconded.
If you do embark on it, let me know - the Hardware Freedom Database
(HFDB - web page still to come :) will do all we can to assist in both
collecting and generating the required information, to the extent that
doing so is useful.
(The HFDB is a cross- kernel, os/distro and vendor project to collect
hardware specific information useful to the free software community. We
will generate output formats suitable for Debian and/ or any other
distro, including the BSDs, that desire it/ can make use of it.
Currently early days, refining our schema and looking at how best to
seamlessly work with existing external HW info projects (eg.
pciids.sf.net)).
cheers
zen
Reply to: