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<sect2><title>Configuring your keyboard</title>
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<para>Few things are more annoying than using Linux while a wrong keymap
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for your keyboard is loaded. If you have a standard US keyboard, however, you
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can skip this section, as the US keymap is the default as long as you don't
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change it.</para>
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<para>To change the default keymap, create the
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<filename class="symlink">/usr/share/kbd/keymaps/defkeymap.map.gz</filename>
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symlink by running the following command:</para>
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<screen><userinput>ln -s path/to/keymap /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/defkeymap.map.gz</userinput></screen>
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<para>Of course, replace <filename>path/to/keymap</filename> with the path and
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name of your keyboard's map file. For example, if you have a Dutch keyboard,
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you would use <filename>i386/qwerty/nl.map.gz</filename>.</para>
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<para>Another way to set your keyboard's layout is to compile the keymap
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into the kernel. This ensures that your keyboard will always work as expected,
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even when you boot into maintenance mode (by passing `init=/bin/sh' to the
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kernel), as then the bootscript that normally sets up your keymap isn't run.</para>
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<para>Run the following command to patch the current default keymap into the
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kernel source. You will have to repeat this command whenever you unpack a
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new kernel:</para>
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<screen><userinput>loadkeys -m /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/defkeymap.map.gz > \
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/usr/src/linux-&kernel-version;/drivers/char/defkeymap.c</userinput></screen>
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</sect2>
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