From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KJx3C-0004oF-3k for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:59:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6AC66E02EB; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:59:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 427D6E02EB for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:59:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5202642AE for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:59:35 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.322 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.322 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.723, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id id5N9H7hyw7U for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:59:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.muc.de (colin.muc.de [193.149.48.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D06FC65E9D for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:59:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 39208 invoked by uid 3782); 18 Jul 2008 20:59:24 -0000 Received: from acm.muc.de (pD9E50035.dip.t-dialin.net [217.229.0.53]) by colin2.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:59:21 +0200 Received: (qmail 2265 invoked by uid 1000); 18 Jul 2008 20:58:42 -0000 Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:58:42 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Installation: help me set up my keyboard, please. Message-ID: <20080718205842.GA2228@muc.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.5 (Fettercairn) From: Alan Mackenzie X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-Archives-Salt: a441296f-0d5c-4551-8789-d6e4a63afb80 X-Archives-Hash: 25118cace54eb5e13e3c42055bcee6cc Hi, Gentoo, I'm having a great time installing Gentoo, and everything's going swimmingly, including having compiled a kernel, got networking working, I can use a USB stick, ..... Except I've hit a brick wall. I want to set up my console keyboard, so I go to edit /etc/conf.d/keymaps, as described in the "x86 Handbook". That file says, after a temporary previous edit: ######################################################################### # Use KEYMAP to specify the default console keymap. There is a complete tree # of keymaps in /usr/share/keymaps to choose from. KEYMAP="uk" ######################################################################### This is aggravatingly vague. I cannot find anything to tell me _HOW_ to "Use KEYMAP to specify ...". Somehow, my current setting of "uk" seems to find and load an appropriate keymap, perhaps /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/uk.map.gz. So the question is how do I get the system to load up my own special keymap, currently called boottime.keymap.gz on my Debian system? Where must I write this file so that it gets loaded? Where do I find the documentation telling where to write this file? I've delved into /etc/init.d/keymaps (a "runscript" shell), but it appears merely to use ${KEYMAP}. I cannot see how this script manages to find a filename out of "uk". Presumably the interpreter /sbin/runscript runs the find command, somehow. But I can't find any documentation for runscript. So I'm stymied. It's a real jar after so much of the installation has gone so smoothly, with otherwise excellent documentation, well above average for a Linux distro. How do I set my keyboard layout? Thanks in advance for the help! -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list