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diff --git a/chapter07/console.xml b/chapter07/console.xml index c9e4242d5..377febfeb 100644 --- a/chapter07/console.xml +++ b/chapter07/console.xml @@ -4,22 +4,92 @@ %general-entities; ]> <sect1 id="ch-scripts-console"> -<title>Do I need the console script?</title> +<title>Configuring the Linux console</title> <?dbhtml filename="console.html"?> <indexterm zone="ch-scripts-console"> <primary sortas="d-console">console</primary> <secondary>configuring</secondary></indexterm> -<para>If you plan to compile the keymap directly in the kernel during <xref -linkend="chapter-bootable"/> (see <xref linkend="ch-system-kbd"/>), then strictly -speaking you don't need to run this loadkeys script, since the kernel will set -up the keymap for you. If you wish, you can still run the script, it isn't going -to hurt you. Keeping it could even be beneficial, in case you run a lot of -different kernels and can't be sure that the keymap is compiled into every one -of them.</para> +<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, +the <command>console</command> initscript will do nothing.</para> -<para>If you decided you don't need or don't want to use the console script, -remove the <filename class="symlink">/etc/rc.d/rcsysinit.d/S70console</filename> symlink.</para> +<para>The <command>console</command> script uses the +<filename>/etc/sysconfig/console</filename> +as a configuration file. You need to decide which keymap and screen font you +will use. The language-specific HOWTO can help you. +In the future releases of LFS-Bootscripts, there will be a pre-made +<filename>/etc/sysconfig/console</filename> file with known +good settings for several countries, and you will just have to uncomment +the relevant section. +If still in doubt, +look into <filename class="directory">/usr/share/kbd</filename> +for valid keymaps and screen fonts. Then read the <command>loadkeys</command> +and <command>setfont</command> manual pages and figure out the correct +arguments for these programs. +Once you decided, create the +configuration file with the following command:</para> + +<screen><userinput>cat >/etc/sysconfig/console <<"EOF"</userinput> +KEYMAP="<emphasis>arguments for loadkeys</emphasis>" +FONT="<emphasis>arguments for setfont</emphasis>" +<userinput>EOF</userinput></screen> + +<para>E.g., for Spanish users who also want to use the Euro character +(accessible by pressing Alt+E), +the following settings are correct:</para> + +<screen><userinput>cat >/etc/sysconfig/console <<"EOF"</userinput> +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> + +<para>In some keymaps, the Backspace and Delete keys send characters +different form ones in the default keymap built into the kernel. +This confuses some applications, e.g. <application>Emacs</application> +displays its help (instead of erasing the character before the cursor) +when you press Backspace. To check if your keymap is affected (this works +only for i386 keymaps):</para> + +<screen><userinput>zgrep '\W14\W' <emphasis>/path/to/your/keymap</emphasis></userinput></screen> + +<para>If you see that keycode 14 is Backspace and not Delete, +create the following keymap snippet to fix this issue:</para> + +<screen><userinput>mkdir -p /etc/kbd & & cat >/etc/kbd/bs-sends-del <<"EOF"</userinput> + keycode 14 = Delete Delete Delete Delete + alt keycode 14 = Meta_Delete +altgr alt keycode 14 = Meta_Delete + keycode 111 = Remove +altgr control keycode 111 = Boot +control alt keycode 111 = Boot +altgr control alt keycode 111 = Boot +<userinput>EOF</userinput></screen> + +<para>Then tell the <command>console</command> script to load this snippet +after the main keymap:</para> + +<screen><userinput>cat >>/etc/sysconfig/console <<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 +<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 +be beneficial, in case you run a lot of different kernels and can't be sure +that the keymap is compiled into every one of them.</para> </sect1> + |