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Corrected console settings for British users

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Alexander E. Patrakov 2004-06-12 14:35:28 +00:00
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chapter01/changelog.xml
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@ -107,6 +107,10 @@ first a summary, then a detailed log.</para>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>June 12, 2004 [alexander]: British people speak English but
need loadkeys and setfont (reported by Dave Mascall on IRC). Corrected the
text on the console page to account for this</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>June 12, 2004 [alexander]: Re-added the "background" option to
/etc/vimrc, since it has some educational value. Put this option inside an "if"
statement because it applies to some, not all, terminals</para></listitem>

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chapter07/console.xml
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@ -13,9 +13,11 @@
<para>In this section we will configure the <command>console</command>
initscript that sets up the keyboard
map and the console font. If you are a native English speaker so that you
don't need to use any non-ASCII characters, and your keyboard is a US one,
skip this section. Without the configuration file,
map and the console font. If you
don't need to use any non-ASCII characters
(British pound and Euro character are not ASCII),
and your keyboard is a US one, you can skip this section.
Without the configuration file,
the <command>console</command> initscript will do nothing.</para>
<para>The <command>console</command> script uses the
@ -50,8 +52,14 @@ KEYMAP="es euro"
FONT="lat9-16 -u iso01"
<userinput>EOF</userinput></screen>
<para>If the KEYMAP or FONT variable is not set, the console initscript
will not run the corresponding program.</para>
<note><para>The FONT line above is correct only for the ISO-8859-15
character set. If you prefer ISO-8859-1 and therefore use a pound sign
instead of Euro, the correct FONT line is:</para>
<screen><userinput>FONT="lat1-16"</userinput></screen></note>
<para>If the KEYMAP or FONT variable is not set, the
<command>console</command> initscript will not run the corresponding
program.</para>
<para>In some keymaps, the Backspace and Delete keys send characters
different form ones in the default keymap built into the kernel.
@ -78,15 +86,16 @@ altgr control alt keycode 111 = Boot
<para>Then tell the <command>console</command> script to load this snippet
after the main keymap:</para>
<screen><userinput>cat &gt;&gt;/etc/sysconfig/console &lt;&lt;EOF</userinput>
<screen><userinput>cat &gt;&gt;/etc/sysconfig/console &lt;&lt;"EOF"</userinput>
KEYMAP_CORRECTION="/etc/kbd/bs-sends-del"
<userinput>EOF</userinput></screen>
<para>If back in <xref linkend="chapter-building-system"/> you decided to go
compile your keymap directly into the kernel (later on in <xref
linkend="chapter-bootable"/>), then strictly speaking you don't need to run the
loadkeys program, since the kernel will set up the keymap for you,
and thus you may omit the KEYMAP variable from the
<para>If you decided to
compile your keymap directly into the kernel later on in <xref
linkend="chapter-bootable"/> instead of setting it every time from the
<command>console</command> bootscript, then you don't need to run the
<command>loadkeys</command> program. Since the kernel will set up the keymap,
you can omit the KEYMAP variable from the
<filename>/etc/sysconfig/console</filename>
configuration file. If you wish,
you can still have it, this isn't going to hurt you. Keeping it could even