Bug 68835

Summary:	genkernel 3.1.0+ lacks an option to choose the correct keymap set
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Gustavo Zacarias (RETIRED) <gustavoz>
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified	Assignee:	Gentoo Genkernel Maintainers <genkernel>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Gustavo Zacarias (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-10-25 07:39:40 UTC

Catalyst 1.1.0 lacks an option to disable the keymap prompt at boot time for the livecd.
This could confuse sparc users, since it's bad for us with 2.4 kernels to use standard peecee keymaps (the sun* ones would be required, *cough* plasmaroo *cough* genkernel *cough*).
On the 2.6 side of things it would be different, but we're not there quite yet, so an option is the best way.
It could possibly affect other architectures too.

Comment 1 Gustavo Zacarias (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-10-25 07:53:13 UTC

Ok, changed to "genkernel 3.1.0+ should have an option to choose the keymap set".
Basically on 2.4 kernels on sparc the keymaps required are /usr/share/keymaps/sun/* instead of the current (default) generic/i386-based ones.
This isn't a showstopper, only a (probable) documentaion consistency problem would arise from this since right now the sparc livecd won't prompt for keymap selection when booting (i'm disabling this from the archscript).

Comment 2 Tim Yamin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-11-13 11:16:49 UTC

If you stuff those keymaps (uncompressed and renamed into $file.map) from /usr/share/keymaps/sun into /usr/share/genkernel/generic/keymaps.tar.gz and try that, entering $file at the prompt, do things work correctly?

Comment 3 Tim Yamin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-12-21 04:42:24 UTC

Booting with nokeymap WORKSFORNOW, I'd be more than happy to add keymaps if I get an updated keymap tarball (see comment #2). Thanks!