Adding keymaps with busybox.

[Michael D. Setzer II]

On 9 Aug 2010 at 8:56, Natanael Copa wrote:

Date sent:	Mon, 9 Aug 2010 08:56:47 +0200
Subject:	Re: Adding keymaps with busybox.
From:	Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>
To:	"Michael D. Setzer II" <mikes at kuentos.guam.net>
Copies to:	busybox at busybox.net

> On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Michael D. Setzer II
> <mikes at kuentos.guam.net> wrote:
> > I have the g4l project that uses busybox, and was just asked by a user how
> > to have it use a swiss german keyboard??
> >
> > The rcS file has an line that was comment out long ago by a previous
> > maintainer of the project that has the line.
> >
> > #/sbin/loadkmap < /var/lib/kbd/keymap.map
> >
> > As far as I can tell, the g4l has never had that directory, so I am assuming
> > this was copied from somewhere else. I would think that one would only
> > need to find the correct keymap.map file, and load it with the busybox
> > loadkmap which is built into the busybox, but I don't seem to be able to find a
> > location for these keymap.map files?
> 
> As I understand the bb loadkmap needs a binary dump of the keymap.
> There was a patch that made kbd output those binary dumps. I think the
> patch went in upstream. (see
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=175179)
> 
> I converted a bunch of the keymaps some time ago. They are available here:
> http://dev.alpinelinux.org/bkeymaps/
> 

Thanks for the info. I've downloaded the files, but since I only have US 
keyboards, I'll have to see if I can get the user to check out the process 
manually first, and then I could look at adding an option to select the 
corresponding keyboard map.

Thanks.


> >
> > G4L is a console only boot cd, so it is just console keyboard mapping.
> >
> > It may also be something that needs to be done in the kernel builds, which
> > are the straight kernel.org kernels.
> 
> No, I think you only need the binary dump of the keymaps.
> 
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
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