From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds) Subject: Re: [Q] Setting foreign keyboards with pl11 Date: 9 Aug 1993 00:28:40 +0300
In article <CMM.0.90.4.744844324.geirhe@gjalp.ifi.uio.no> Geir Harris Hedemark <geirhe@ifi.uio.no> writes:
>>At the place where you got the kernel, you may find a tar archive which name I
>>forgot, but there is something with key in the name.
>>
>>It contains a program called loadkeys and some map files. This is the new
>>way to have international keyboards supported. Simply put a loadkeys gr.map or
>>something else in your /etc/rc.local.
>
>Hmm. That wouldn't be the kbd.tar.gz/z (whatever) from nic.funet.fi,
>would it? I surely hope not - this package won't work (or even
>compile) here. When I do a loadkeys no.map the entire screen is filled
>with error messages saying something about not being able to map the
>keycodes correctly (Sorry - I can't get the exact message just now.
>I'm running MS-dos.). The error message is produced by a ioctl call in
>loadkeys.c .
>
>I'm running 0.99.11 with libc 4.4.1.
kdb.tar.gz is meant for use with the ALPHA-pl12 kernel which has a much
more flexible keymapping facility: it will indeed break badly on 0.99.11
which isn't quite so clever about the keyboard. The easiest way to fix
this is to get ALPHA-pl12, but you can also try to find the file
"keytables.tar.gz" which contains the older version.
Linus