From 5536f7440f2f4a12782e8d741cbbba5f1c3cfea8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Archaic Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 19:00:06 +0000 Subject: Applied Alexander Patrakov's patch which adds UTF-8 capability to the development branch of the LFS Book. git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@7235 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- chapter08/kernel.xml | 16 ++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'chapter08/kernel.xml') diff --git a/chapter08/kernel.xml b/chapter08/kernel.xml index fcac33a39..4b9f0bcfd 100644 --- a/chapter08/kernel.xml +++ b/chapter08/kernel.xml @@ -48,6 +48,13 @@ in the kernel source tree for alternative methods to the way this book configures the kernel. + By default, Linux kernel generates wrong sequences of bytes when + dead keys are used in UTF-8 keyboard mode. Also, one cannot copy and paste + non-ASCII characters when UTF-8 mode is aciive. Fix these issues with the + patch: + +patch -Np1 -i ../&linux-utf8-patch; + Prepare for compilation by running the following command: make mrproper @@ -57,14 +64,7 @@ kernel compilation. Do not rely on the source tree being clean after un-tarring. - If, in it was decided to - compile the keymap into the kernel, issue the command below: - -loadkeys -m /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/[path to keymap] > \ - drivers/char/defkeymap.c - - For example, if using a Dutch keyboard, use - /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/nl.map.gz. + Configure the kernel via a menu-driven interface. BLFS has some information regarding particular kernel configuration requirements of -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf