on Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 09:39:30PM -0300, Daniel Toffetti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > If I uninstall the console-tools and reinstall I can't select an > > > new keytable and the old russian table was loaded. Where to hell is > > > the configuration file to change this permanent? > > > > /etc/console-tools > > > > Copy a keymap there named as 'default.kmap.gz'. Check > > /etc/init.d/console-tools for more info. > > I renamed the already existent 'default.kmap.gz' to > 'default.kmap.gz.old' and copied there a new kmap, renamed to > 'default.kmap.gz', but it did't worked. I tried with Latin1, ES-CP850 > and ES.
What happens if you try to load the map with loadkeys? Check for verbose options. I've found that relocated files often don't find all their referents properly. > /etc/init.d/console-tools does not exist. I only found > /etc/init.d/console-screen.kbd.sh and keymap.sh I think console-screen is what you want. That's in the console-tools package. > BTW, where can I found a detailed reference for keyboard layouts? I > don't even know what is the keymap that corresponds to my keyboard. No idea. I just used the defaul US-en and it worked ;-) > Perhaps I'm missing something obvious ? The documentation is very > confusing to me (man loadkeys, keymaps, Keyboard-HOWTO) and if I'm > guessing correct, it seems that there has been some kind of upgrade > from kbd to console-tools, and I suspect some of the docs perhaps are > not up to date. Is this correct ? Quite probably. I stumbled through a few things before I got them to work myself. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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