Subject: Re: Jornada 6x0 new keyboard layout ?
To: None <port-hpcsh@netbsd.org>
From: Valeriy E. Ushakov <uwe@ptc.spbu.ru>
List: port-hpcsh
Date: 10/11/2005 11:45:36
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 09:08:43 +0000, wrzymski wrote:
> 2005/10/10, Valeriy E. Ushakov <uwe@ptc.spbu.ru>:
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 22:52:31 +0000, wrzymski wrote:
> >
> > > add 'pseudo AKD' layout for hpcsh kernel and bootloader ?
> >
> > Why hardcode it? It's not different from US or EU at the primary
> > layer, so you can handle it entirely in the userland. Use mapfile
> > directive in /etc/wscons.conf
> >
> > A map only have to be hardwired to the kernel if it's different at the
> > primary layer, b/c you potentially need that as early as right after
> > copyright banner is printed ("break into debugger" opion, or early
> > boot fault that lands you there).
>
> I've been trying with wscons.conf and mapfile but in current it
> doesn't work. There is pl mapfile in
> /usr/share/wscons/keymaps/pckbd.pl.iso8859-2 looks fine for me, and
> works under i386. The problem is that loading it under hpcsh ends
> with no working keyboard.
"Not working" == ?
Anyway, I'd suggest making a custom map for the Jornada. Select in
the bootloader the option that matches your physical layout, dump the
map with wsconsctl, edit it to give you latin2 chars on the altgr
layer as necessary, and load that map.
SY, Uwe
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