Re: keyboard configuration fails

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Martin-Éric Racine, le mer. 29 nov. 2023 11:26:07 +0200, a ecrit:
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 11:22 AM Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> wrote:
> >
> > Martin-Éric Racine, le mer. 29 nov. 2023 01:55:23 +0200, a ecrit:
> > > On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 11:13 PM Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> wrote:
> > > > Martin-Éric Racine, le dim. 26 nov. 2023 16:19:58 +0200, a ecrit:
> > > > > The installer failed to configure the keyboard, which shows with
> > > > > incorrect symbols when typing in my user name at account creation.
> > > >
> > > > Which item did you choose in the boot menu?
> > > >
> > > > Which layout did you select?
> > >
> > > Text install.
> >
> > Text install is the pure gnumach console, which doesn't support keyboard
> > layouts.
> 
> Wait... the console doesn't support keyboard maps AT ALL?!

The Mach console, indeed (actually there is some support for it but it's
quite limited in terms of capacities, and thus we don't use it).

The Hurd console (pseudo-graphical) does support it, and uses the xkb
data.

Samuel