hodgen@infko.uni-koblenz.de
Date: 06/30/92


From: hodgen@infko.uni-koblenz.de
Subject: Keyboard trans.
Date: 30 Jun 1992 08:15:42 GMT

In article <1992Jun29.182451.29701@news.acns.nwu.edu> hpa@nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin) writes:
>In article <89ll7m#@lynx.unm.edu> of comp.os.linux,
> techs@pioneer.unm.edu (Erik Fichtner) writes:
>>
>> a keyboard hack in the kernel would be a nice idea.
>
>Actually, I would very much like to see an /etc/keytab hack too, to avoid
>having to recompile the kernel for another keyboard setup... better yet if
>X could be made to read off it too (currently X treats my Swedish keyboard
>as a U.S. one even though Linux doesn't).
>

There is a patch to minix which does this. You get a /dev/keyboard or something
like that and you just need a line in your rc script to load the correct table.
I've got the source here somewhere is anyone is interested. I'd do it myself
but until gcc stabilises I won't have source to Linux. I can't get my News
admin to ftp the whole lot twice (or more).

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