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<sect2><title>Configuring your keyboard</title>
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<para>Nothing is more annoying than using Linux with a wrong keymap loaded
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for your keyboard. If you have a default US keyboard, you can skip this
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section. The US keymap file is the default if you don't change it.</para>
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<para>To set the default keymap file, 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 commands:</para>
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<para><screen><userinput>ln -s <path/to/keymap> /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/defkeymap.map.gz</userinput></screen></para>
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<para>Replace <path/to/keymap> with the your keyboard's map file. For
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example, if you have a Dutch keyboard, you would run:</para>
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<para><screen><userinput>ln -s i386/qwerty/nl.map.gz /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/defkeymap.map.gz</userinput></screen></para>
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<para>A second option to configure your keyboard's layout is to compile
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the keymap directly into the kernel. This will make sure that your
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keyboard always works as expected, even when you have booted into
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maintenance mode (by passing `init=/bin/sh' to the kernel), in which case
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the bootscript that normally sets up your keymap isn't run.</para>
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<para>Run the following command to patch the correct 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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<para><screen><userinput>loadkeys -m /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/defkeymap.map.gz > \
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/usr/src/linux/drivers/char/defkeymap.c</userinput></screen></para>
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</sect2>
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