rc.sysinit, load keymap

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Di, den 03.01.2006 schrieb Rakotomandimby Mihamina um 19:36:

> I would like to load a keymap a friend sent me over Internet.
> I had a look at the /etc/rc.sysinit
> It check for the existence of a default.kmap file.
> If it exists, it is supposed to load and use it.
> By default, on my system it does not exist.
> The problem is when I create it and make it the same as the file the
> friend sent to me, it is not loaded.
> The keymap is changed, but changed to another one I dont know (a qwerty
> one).
> My keyboard is an azerty.
> I need the keyboard map because the embeded one is buggy under Emacs
> (M-w and so on...) and I dont use X on that machine.

Did you consult the documentation file
/usr/share/doc/initscripts*/sysconfig.txt? Find the part about
"/etc/sysconfig/keyboard" which has some notes about how you handle this
within "/etc/sysconfig/console/default.kmap".
X has its own setup.

Alexander


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