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Re: console keymap and console-setup



* Tyler Smith <tyler.smith@mail.mcgill.ca> [070530 08:28]:
> On 2007-05-30, Russell L. Harris <rlharris@oplink.net> wrote:
> >
> > Before "dvorak-classic" became a standard offering in Debian, the
> > approach which I used was to execute the command:
> >
> >     # install-keymap dvorak-classic.kmap.gz
> >
> > sometime during installation and configuration of the system --
> > usually at the first opportunity.  
> >
> 
> Ok, so I ran 
> 
> install-keymap /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/custom.kmap
> 
> and then rebooted.
> 
> The keymap was not installed, and I got the same problems as usual.
> However, I then ran
> 
> loadkeys /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/custom.kmap
> 
> and got the proper keymap going. I took a look at
> /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz and it looks like the right file, so I'm
> not sure what is wrong.

Perhaps install-keymap requires the keymap to be in gzip form? 

RLH



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