Re: Some GRUB issues (0.5.96.1)

[Thierry Laronde]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 09:16:57PM +0200, Mario Klebsch wrote:
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> On Tuesday, 12. June 2001 08:23, Joachim Backes wrote:
> > 2. The keyboard attached to my PC is a german keyboard. Therefore,
> > during booting with GRUB, a lot of keys have another meaning than on
> > US keyboards. The "setkey" command can be helpful, but it would be
> > better if a command like "setkeytable" would be available, for
> > example:
> >
> >         setkeytable de-latin1              or
> >         setkeytable de-latin1-nodeadkeys,
> >
> >     which could be in the file /boot/grub/menu.lst, so that the
> >     keymap is already correct if stage2 is loaded.
> 
> 
> Yes, this on is top on my personal wish-list, too. I tried to read raw
> keyboard events instead of ASCII-Characters. 

You can always put on top of the menu.lst the "mapping" of ASCII
characters for you keyboard.

That's what I propose for french users :


# Keymapping for an azerty french keyboard
setkey less backquote
setkey greater tilde
setkey ampersand 1
setkey 1 exclam
setkey tilde 2
setkey 2 at
setkey doublequote 3
setkey 3 numbersign
setkey quote 4
setkey 4 dollar
setkey parenleft 5
setkey 5 percent
setkey minus 6
setkey 6 caret
setkey backquote 7
setkey 7 ampersand
setkey underscore 8
setkey 8 asterisk
setkey backslash 9
setkey 9 parenleft
setkey at 0
setkey 0 parenright
setkey parenright minus
setkey numbersign underscore
# no change for equal
# no change for plus
setkey a q
setkey A Q
setkey z w
setkey Z W
setkey caret bracketleft
# no equivalent for diaresis => we keep the US braceleft
setkey dollar bracketright
# no equivalent for pound => we keep the US braceright
setkey q a
setkey Q A
setkey m semicolon
setkey M colon
setkey bracketleft quote 
setkey percent doublequote
setkey asterisk backslash
setkey bracketright bar
setkey w z
setkey W Z
setkey comma m
setkey question M
setkey semicolon comma
setkey period less
setkey colon period
setkey slash greater
setkey exclam slash
setkey bar question

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Cheers,
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Thierry Laronde <address@hidden>
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