Bug 54424 – Keymap selection should not require typing of any letters

• Product: Gentoo Release Media
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description michael farrell 2004-06-19 08:37:51 UTC]

In the LiveCDs, Keymap selection should not require me to type "gentoo dokeymap" at the isolinux prompt, and instead ask me for a keymap without needing to use any letters.

The Slackware CD, for example, asks you every time you load it's LiveCD it asks you to press 1 to select a non-US keymap, and asks you for the number of the keymap you wish to use.

The Debian-installer CD, as another example, you scroll through the list of keymaps, and select one.

Yes, I know that when you type "gentoo dokeymap" I only have to type numbers to select my keymap, but this menu should appear every time the livecd is used.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
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Expected Results:  
The LiveCD should run by default with "gentoo dokeymap".

[Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2004-06-20 11:23:26 UTC]

I'm just curious, but why do you think so?  I much prefer a LiveCD that is non-interactive.

Perhaps if we were to do something like "To change your keymap press 1 in the next 5 seconds." and have it timeout then continue booting.

[Comment 2 michael farrell 2004-06-21 09:22:53 UTC]

Yeah, a timeout would work, just make it something like 10-15 seconds.

[Comment 3 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2004-06-22 05:16:49 UTC]

This definitely will not get fixed by the next release (just to let you know) since we've already feature frozen and are now in QA/bug fix mode.

I am reassigning to [e-mail] so they can investigate this, as I think it is a much better idea than the current dokeymap solution.

[Comment 4 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2004-10-15 22:47:09 UTC]

I modified my patch to generkenel to do a read -t 30 -p ... so it will try to read the keymap and then timeout after 30 seconds.

I also modified catalyst to use genkernel's --do-keymap-auto when building the kernel.  This means that the keymap selection should display no matter what, with a 30 second timeout.  How does that sound?

[Comment 5 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2004-10-15 22:58:18 UTC]

OK... 30 seconds is too long... changed to 15 seconds

[Comment 6 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2004-10-21 21:52:41 UTC]

OK... 10 seconds... and this is the default for 2004.3 now... enjoy