| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
sdunne
n00b
Joined: 02 Sep 2003
Posts: 72
Location: London, UK
|
 Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2003 7:23 pm Post subject: rc5 and sunt5-uk keyboard map |
 |
|
Has anyone got the /usr/share/keyboards/sun/sunt5-uk.map.gz to load successfully with 1.4_rc5 ?
sunkeymap works just fine (but the mappings are for a us keyboard so it's not great), but attempting to load sunt5-uk causes errors in /etc/intit.d/keymaps on startup.
Any suggestions appreciated. |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
sdunne
n00b
Joined: 02 Sep 2003
Posts: 72
Location: London, UK
|
| Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2003 4:22 pm Post subject: |
|
|
OK so that's a No then.
In that case is it appropriate to report this as a possible bug ?? |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Weeve
Retired Dev
Joined: 30 Oct 2002
Posts: 641
|
| Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2003 6:02 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Yeah, it's a possible bug.
Do the logs report anything about loading the keymap? |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
sdunne
n00b
Joined: 02 Sep 2003
Posts: 72
Location: London, UK
|
| Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2003 6:40 pm Post subject: |
|
|
loading it by hand via /bin/loadkeys sunt5-uk doesn't generate any command line errors, but it looks like all keys are screwed after that (for example the number keys are producing lower case letters. STOP-A doesn't work at all, that sort of thing)
When I tried to look into this I modded line 37 of /etc/init.d/keymaps so I could control exactly what driver filename was being passed to /bin/loadkeys on startup, rather than messing around with env vars. When it's "/bin/loadkeys sunkeymap" (sans quotes) everything loads up fine (loads of green OKs before I get the login prompt). When it is changed to "/bin/loadkeys sunt5-uk" nearly everything from there onwards in the startup script fails. The keyboard I have is actually a Sun type 6 UK keyboard, but I can only find t5 drivers. Hopefully they are backwards compatible.
What specific log file would I be looking for errors on startup ??
Apologies, I've only just started with Gentoo. I really hope I haven't done something daft!  |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Weeve
Retired Dev
Joined: 30 Oct 2002
Posts: 641
|
| Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2003 7:05 pm Post subject: |
|
|
It looks like you're doing the right thing.
Type 6 keyboards seem to work fine with the Type 5 layouts.
You might check /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog (or /var/log/everything/current if using metalog). |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
sdunne
n00b
Joined: 02 Sep 2003
Posts: 72
Location: London, UK
|
| Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2003 7:12 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Jason
Thanks for reassuring me that I'm roughly doing the right thing.
I'm currently emerging gnome so I can forget about rebooting for another day or so 
Once gnome is built I'll change back to loading sunt5-uk, reboot and check my metalog /var/log/everything/current file and report back.
Regards
Stephen |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
Gentoo on Sparc
