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From: hp@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Peter Holzer)
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Date: 13 Jun 91 08:54:32 GMT
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wolff@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (;Rogier Wolff) writes:

>badger@sn411.sintef.no (Kristin Utheim) writes:

>>What Have We Got?
>>-----------------
>>We've got a system where, once the new versions of keyboard.c, menu.c and
>>boot.h are installed, the keyboard translations can be modified through one
>>header file - keymap.h. A quick re-compile and you've got a Danish keyboard
>>or a deliberately scrambled keymap for those who think its funny.

>aargh! (sorry) Why not just allow "root" to modify the keymap. Make a little
 ^^^^^^I thought the same when I read that article. Editing some file
 and a `quick recompile' gives you a new keyboard with the vanilla 1.5
 keyboard driver, too.

>program that finds the keymap in kmem, and changes it according to a file.
>Now simply add a "keymap /usr/lib/danish" command to your /etc/rc file!
[...]
>I currently don't have time to do it right. sorry.

Fortunately you don't have to :-). I wrote a keyboard driver that lets
you change the keymap by writing to a minor device some time ago (IMHO
this is cleaner than writing programs that poke around in /dev/kmem,
but then there are people who say they don't like minor devices and
want to do this with an ioctl -- mostly a religious issue). The main
problem is that it doesn't work with virtual consoles (yet, maybe I get
around to changing this after I have upgraded to 1.6.16). I agree
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