[BusyBox] some help.....

[Erik Andersen]

On Fri Jan 05, 2001 at 07:00:26PM -0500, Tom Cameron wrote:
> Hello all,
> 	I have made some GREAT progress in the past few weeks with my
> busybox-based system!  It's great to know that there is such excellent
> support behind this project.  I am writing today with just a simple
> question.  I was looking over my /etc scripts, and noticed that I do not
> have a section to load a keymap or a system font.  Do I need to do either of
> these?  If I do, what do you suggest?  Any comments/feedback are, as always,
> GREATLY appreciated!  Thanks all!

These are only needed if you have a keyboard and or a VGA or otherwise
graphical console.  Furthermore, even if you have both of these things, you
only need this stuff if the keyboard you intend to use doesn't corespond to the
default mapping of the Linux kernel.  Unless you are doing something odd, you
probably don't need to mess with the system font.

If you find you need to change the keymap, busybox loadkmap and dumpkmap are
your friends.  They use a binary format that is much more compact then the
normal format used elsewhere.  To create such a kmap, go to a system that has
the keymapping set up just the way you want it, then run `busybox dumpkmap >
my_keymap`.  Then you can run 'loadkmap < my_keymap` on your target system and
everything should be cool.  Note that loadkmap and dumpkmap are not at all
endianness aware, so you cannot run on dumpkmap on your x86 system and expect
it to work on powerpc. 

 -Erik

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