Keymap fix (was: Success with HPT366 enhanced 2.2.1 disks)
Previously I wrote on debian-testing:
[testing selfmade 2.2.1 boot disks]
> 1. The finnish keymap was not loaded, even though I chose it
> during the installation. I had to copy
> /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/fi-latin1.kmap.gz to /etc/kbd/
> default.map.gz
After I got home and had something to eat, I took a better look at
this keymap problem. Here's what I found out:
utilities/dbootstrap/kbdconfig.c does this in configure_keyboard()
kbdconf=fopen("/tmp/kbdconf","w");
fprintf(kbdconf,"%s/%s",prefix,choices[rs].tag);
fclose(kbdconf);
It looks like the string in /tmp/kbdconf will be something like
"i386/qwerty/fi-latin1" (without the quotes). This string will
later be copied to /target/root/kbdconf which is processed after
the first reboot like this:
if [ -s /root/kbdconf ]; then
# non empty file -> do automatic configuration
MAP=/usr/share/keymaps/`cat /root/kbdconf`.map.gz
loadkeys ${MAP} ; dumpkeys > /etc/kbd/default.map
gzip -9fv /etc/kbd/default.map
rm /root/kbdconf
The problem is that the files in /usr/share/keymaps/blah/ end with
.kmap.gz. Here's an example:
/usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/fi-latin1.kmap.gz
Since loadkeys does not require full pathname, I suggest a fix
like this. Apply in scripts/basedisks/new_root_home/
--- .bash_profile.orig Sat Oct 16 17:04:40 1999
+++ .bash_profile Wed Oct 20 21:55:58 1999
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
if [ -s /root/kbdconf ]; then
# non empty file -> do automatic configuration
- MAP=/usr/share/keymaps/`cat /root/kbdconf`.map.gz
+ MAP=`cat /root/kbdconf`
loadkeys ${MAP} ; dumpkeys > /etc/kbd/default.map
gzip -9fv /etc/kbd/default.map
rm /root/kbdconf
Warning: I have not tried this with the actual boot disks but it
seems to work.
# cat kbdconf
i386/qwerty/fi-latin1
# loadkeys `cat kbdconf`
Loading /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/fi-latin1.kmap.gz
# dpkg -S loadkeys
kbd: /usr/share/man/man1/loadkeys.1.gz
kbd: /bin/loadkeys
# dpkg -s kbd|grep '^Version:'
Version: 0.99-5
// Heikki
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Heikki Vatiainen * hessu@cs.tut.fi
Tampere University of Technology * Tampere, Finland
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