From: Joe Carvalho (carvalho@tribiet.uucp)
Date: 05/02/93


From: carvalho@tribiet.uucp (Joe Carvalho)
Subject: Re: SLS 1.01 kernel recompile == funky keyboard
Date: Sun, 2 May 1993 16:36:15 GMT

Illustrious Ezra (eparker@cats.ucsc.edu) wrote:

: For some reason when I recompile the Linux kernel using source
: that comes with SLS 1.01, running make config, make dep, and make Image
: and make image I reboot the new kernel and am flabbergasted to find
: that my keyboard is all wacky. Specifically I am using a 101 key
: American HP keyboard that works fine with the standard kernel
: form a1.3 and the like but upn recompilation keys get switched
: around to the tune of - and _ becoming + and ? and strange stuff
: like that. Surely that's because I've compiled in support for some
: other kind of keyboard but the various tests I've tried to fix it
: and use the correct keyboard info have failed and I'm uninterested
: in recompiling over and over to see if I got it right. has anyone
: encountered/solved this problem? Any suggestions about where to
: look?

: Thanks,
: Ezra

: Alternatively, the whole reason I am recompiling is to changethe
: we0 default interrupt from 5 to 2. Is there any way to achieve
: this without a recompile?

Hi,
Look in the main Makefile around line 47. Take your pick of keyboards.
--joe