From: Enrico.Scotoni@purplet.demon.co.uk (Enrico Scotoni) Subject: [Q] pl10 & german keyboar Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1993 04:34:00 +0000
AB>From: andy@resi.waldorf-gmbh.de (Andreas Busse)
AB>I have installed Linux on a friend's intel box. He's lucky with it but
>he's fairly missing the german keyboard mapping. I don't understand :-),
>but nevertheless:
AB>How do I configure the keyboard in pl10 ?
It seems that you missed the release notes for PL10.
Okay here is an excerpt of the release notes for PL10:
- Keyboard setup has changed: it is no longer hardcoded at compile
time, but instead you can use the new "loadkeys" program to load in a
new keyboard map on the fly. The default keyboard map is the normal
US keyboard (yes, I should have used the Finnish one by default, but
after thinking of all the problems that would have resulted in I
forgot about that idea). The loadkeys code can be found in the
"keytables.tar.z" archive, which also contains keymaps for most
normal keyboard types. To create a custom keyboard table is very
easy - just take a 5 minute look at the existing map files (they
resemble the ones used by xmodmap, so if you are familiar with
those..)
The loadable keymaps were mostly implemented by Risto Kankkunen.
.. And: Linus, if you are reading this: How about including the release
notes in your distribution instead of just posting them ? It seems
people are sometimes missing or overlooking them.
Enrico.