On 19 February 2016 at 14:52, Anton Zinoviev <an...@lml.bas.bg> wrote: > >> Is XKBMODEL= always expected to be written out to the file even >> if the value is empty? (or is it a bug in the parsers not handling >> when its missing? I'd say normally you want parsers to be liberal >> in what they accept.) > > XKBMODEL has no default value (at least in console-setup). It should always > be > present and never as empty value.
This is not what keyboard(5) says: XKBMODEL Specifies the XKB keyboard model name. Default: pc105 for most platforms. On 20 February 2016 at 11:02, Anton Zinoviev <an...@lml.bas.bg> wrote: > In case it is difficult to preserve the existing value, you can use 'pc105' > as a > default value. Alternatively, the following table with default values can be > used: > > Architecture Subarchitecture Model > ----------------------------------- > m68k atari ataritt > m68k mac macintosh_old > m68k Other pc105 > powerpc amiga amiga > powerpc Other pc105 > Other pc105 Maybe console-setup should encode this table itself, so that the documentation becomes correct. -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler